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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. 5) Manage deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. 5) Manage deal flow.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. Filed under: Customer Development. If you can’t hear the clip, click here. Steve : And they need to agree. Evangelos : Yes.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate.

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The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table?

Version One Ventures

If you find yourself in the fortunate position of being oversubscribed, you’ll likely look to build the best investor base and find the right partners for your journey. Are you looking for help and expertise in hiring, product strategy, customer development, fundraising, coaching, therapy, etc.? What is important to you?

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How NextView Thinks About Pre-Seed Rounds as VC Investors

View from Seed

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. My partner David wrote yesterday in greater detail about some of our learnings from co-habitating with pre-seed companies. You can find that here.

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