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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow. It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow. It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive.

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Angel Investing 4 – Why You Need Deep Pockets to Win Big

Both Sides of the Table

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. And these are people with deep pockets.

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

David Teten

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 4) Manage deal flow. 6) Negotiate deal.

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The LP Opportunity to Change Tech Culture

thebarefootvc

This tends to reinforce the lack of diversity in deal flow. Or a male founder who can do the same, but prefers to stay off social media and recharge by spending time with his family? Broaden Search for New Fund Relationships : Most of these institutional LPs only add a few new fund relationships a year.

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On Launching a Brand – Upfront Ventures Four Months In

Both Sides of the Table

We have a few portfolio companies going through brand changes. We are trying hard to live up to the guidelines we laid out for our investors, our portfolio companies and our community. Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media).

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