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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. But as with consulting, PR, web design and even VC – it’s not just the firm it’s also the individual.

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

David Teten

Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 4) Manage deal flow. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

The idea is to build a hit that would make the founder(s) an appealing and quick talent acquisition (sometimes referred to as an acq-hire). Lastly, large companies that seek new talent will likely hire promising individuals through a small exit. This should also help valorize you in a acq-hire scenario. The focus is on building.

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How VC’s Source

Rob Go

The stock answer from most investors is that they get most of their deal flow from referrals. Great referrals comes from having a great product, and so the most important part of effective deal flow is having a great “venture capital product” that fits the needs of founders and exceeds their expectations.

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Smart Bear Live 8: Edwin from MeetingKing.com

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

So hiring more people and being around more people and getting more things done is not actually one of the reasons. And so professional angels that have access to real deal flow? ” So people who are great and have good deal flow have the ability to not have to take as much risk. Lots of things change.