David Teten
APRIL 1, 2021
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.
Startup Professionals Musings
FEBRUARY 13, 2011
With today’s access to the Internet, and Google searches, it really isn’t that hard. This is perhaps the most reliable source of information on angel investor groups across the world, and the software is used by most of the other angel organizations mentioned below for deal flow. Here are the largest flocks: Angelsoft.
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Steve Blank
NOVEMBER 1, 2011
Rolodex/deal flow (deal sourcing/ability to make connections for the portfolio). For venture firms who want to groom/grow associates or operating execs into partners (rather than hiring proven partners), here’s my suggestion: Have them start as an analyst (search for deal flow and people, due diligence).
David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource.
David Teten
SEPTEMBER 23, 2017
VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. 4) Manage deal flow. 9% (1 / 12).
VC Cafe
JULY 31, 2020
To be an effective VC, proactivity is part of the job description: Proactively learn about new companies trends and markets Proactively network (deal flow, peers, industry partners) Proactively seek opportunities to help. ” My interpretation for VC has to do with portfolio construction. Habit #3 – First things first.
thebarefootvc
JULY 3, 2017
Broaden Search for New Fund Relationships : Most of these institutional LPs only add a few new fund relationships a year. This tends to reinforce the lack of diversity in deal flow. Often these are referrals from existing fund managers.
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