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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Most importantly, we have regular meetings with later-stage VCs and enterprise clients both in the US and internationally to discuss our companies which fit their investment mandates. Effectively, we are a market maker between our portfolio companies and the late-stage VCs and large enterprises which are our co-investors.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

Prior to starting my own public relations and marketing consultancy, I worked for one of the largest global advertising agencies as well as smaller boutique PR and advertising agencies. 6 – Investment Banker. Thanks to Tom La Vecchia, X Factor Media ! #2 Image Credit: Natalie Harper. Image Credit: Janet Wu.

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The Secret History of Minnesota Part 1: Engineering Research Associates

Steve Blank

While unique for the time, this public-private partnership was in-line with the wartime experiment of Vannevar Bush’s OSRD – using civilians in universities to develop military weapons. Finally, ERA’s penchant for extreme secrecy left them unschooled in the art of marketing, sales, and Public Relations. Why Minneapolis/St.

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