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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. Typically these outside resources are paid only on a success basis, so the marginal cost is low. . All of the strategies above have very modest fixed cost. This requires a real financial sacrifice.

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Term-sheets and Valuations: Thinking about Negotiations - Startups.

Tim Keane

Term-sheets for preferred stock offerings are designed to protect the investor in case things don’t go as well as planned.   In some rare cases, there may also be a participation provision for dividends which pays the preferred a dividend beyond their own equal to any dividend paid to the common.

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Girls in Tech. IP Location Tools. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? mixpanel vs kissmetric vs google analytics review. Seed Startups.