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

David Teten

Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. For more, see the Startup Studio Playbook.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

above inflation yet in many markets in the US & Europe prices were rising at 10-25% per year. The dinner parties now are filled with self-righteous angel investors bragging about how many deals they are in on. They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments.

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This is going to be BIG.

Pedro Arrupe coined the term “ Men and Women for Others ” in an address to the Tenth International Congress of Jesuit Alumni of Europe. Is it no accident, then, that one of the founding fathers of venture capital, Don Valentine of Sequoia, also came from Fordham? There's no magic flow of great deal flow.

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Why B2B Marketplaces Are Red-Hot

Haystack

1/ Consumer feels dry: I can’t prove this but simply based on how our deal flow has changed and frankly what is getting funded by the top institutional funds, consumer is increasingly harder to get right. For instance, Rekki is in Europe and Faire is expanding through North America.

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Dow Jones VentureSource Press Release: Q3 Investments Slow Down, Europe Slowest, China up 32%

VC Cafe

3, 2010) —Venture capitalists from around the world invested $7.8 billion in 995 deals for companies based in the U.S., Europe, Canada, Israel, Mainland China and India, according to industry tracker Dow Jones VentureSource. billion put into 1,025 deals during the same period last year. Venture capitalists put $1.2

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

David Teten

Public theses are often inconsistent with how firms actually deploy capital. A typical VC thesis: “we invest in tech startups in Europe at an early stage” However, our experience shows that in many cases: . “Europe” means a handful of countries, for instance, France, UK, and Germany. 1) Industry funds.