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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly The firm’s portfolio includes the likes of Gist , Lijit , Brightleaf, Memeo, SimpleGeo , StockTwits and Zynga. Gary Vaynerchuk: Personal branding master and creator of Wine Library TV, Gary Vaynerchuk is also an angel investor with an expanding portfolio of companies.

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Re-imagining Enterprise Applications in the Cloud

Ben's Blog

Proferi is still in stealth mode, so the easiest way for me to describe them is through the lens of their inventor. Christian throws out the old data models, databases, and data restrictions. Tags: Companies People Portfolio Companies Proferi. With this as a background, I couldn’t wait to hear what Christian had created.

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The Future of Startups 2013-2017

Scalable Startup

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. Marc Andreessen: We have a bunch of stealth investments. I mean, this is a big, big thing — big change for us, so we have a bunch of stealth investments — I mean, companies that haven’t talked about what they are doing yet. are all precursors, rumbles before the big boom. Exactly right!