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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . Use online networks to more efficiently identify the right potential LPs.

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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

by Joe Duncan, founder of Duncan Capital LP. Legacy architecture in financial services, by contrast, is comprised of unique centralized databases, requiring the need and added cost of intermediaries to verify transactions between them (e.g. At least for investment banks the answer is not so clear cut. And they’re trying!

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. I used Ipreo heavily at one of my prior VC funds.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

125 theses so far submitted by investors into the OpenVC database. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. As such, there are 3 stakeholders when building a thesis: the investing Partners, the LPs and the founders. . Our analysis is based on two complementary datasets: .

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

If your idea is so amazing that it warrants my hard-earned angel money or the money of my LP investors from our fund then why should I take a risk on you if you won’t take a risk on yourself? Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. Why should I be? It’s lost salary for a period of time.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

They have built the world’s largest database of brainwave data, which can be used to help in treating ADHD, PTSD, and other brain disorders. . I was previously a Partner at two different VC firms, neither of which had any contractual LP mandate to invest in diverse companies. One example of a structural solution is targeted outreach.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?