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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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16 Design Symbols Your Business Can Use to Improve Its Brand Identity

crowdSPRING Blog

Why use symbols in design? It’s in your best interest to make sure that every logo design choice is intentional and communicates the message you want to convey. Thoughtless design choices lead to misleading or confusing logos. Symbols can help customers understand your brand. Nothing should be arbitrary.

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Equity Investment Platform Preparation Best Practices

Startup Professionals Musings

If you are one of the thousands of entrepreneurs who need equity funding to get your startup going (no loans to repay), you are probably overwhelmed at the prospect of finding, contacting and pitching to the huge number of qualified angels and investment groups around the country. File a provisional patent or other intellectual property.

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Pitch Deck Month: The “Where Are You Going?” Slide

View from Seed

This is sometimes business-model dependent, e.g.: Product/Design/Engineering headcount – need to bring on a full-time PM and/or designer with X product milestones; rough estimates of engineering headcount by stage. Enterprise SaaS/B2B software – account executives (AEs) and sales developement reps (SDRs).

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[Interview] Michael C. Fillios, Author Of “Tech Debt 2.0™: How To Future Proof Your Small Business And Improve Your Tech Bottom Line”  

YoungUpstarts

In the software industry, the term “technical debt,” also known as design debt or code debt, is widely used as a catchall to cover everything from bugs to legacy code to missing documentation. Here is some of our conversation: Most of us are familiar with the term technical debt. What exactly do you mean by “Tech Debt 2.0”?

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Rebranding Your Business? Key Things To Keep In Mind

YoungUpstarts

Rebranding a business is a marketing strategy wherein a new name, design, concept, term, symbol, and combination of these elements are created for a brand. The aim is to develop a differentiated and new identity in the minds of consumers, competitors, investors, and other stakeholders. Also, identify equities that won’t change.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

Companionship Differentiated value prop vs. generalist chat products – AI companion products hat specialise in content that mainstream models aren’t good at (or don’t allow), like fictional role plays or erotica. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.