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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 Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives. Another example is Correlation Ventures ($300M+ AUM), a VC firm which co-invests in financings with at least one other new outside VC. engineers, designers, business developers). Previously posted on PEHub.

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Venture Capital Access Program launches to aid women and diverse entrepreneurs

David Teten

We are in the midst of two great disruptions to American business: the internet’s ongoing disruption of most traditional industries: finance, healthcare, retail, finance, fashion, etc. The National Association of Investment Companies (NAIC) is the trade association representing women and diverse private equity and venture firms.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. (That said, I think videoconferencing will supplant more in-person meetings over time.).

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Wonderist Agency Acquires Merger Labs

YoungUpstarts

Eighteen months ago, San Diego-based MergerLabs was born out of CAPTARGET, a leader in private equity deal origination, owned and operated by Gabe Galvez. Galvez, a major player in private equity and investment banking, saw the need for marketing services geared toward these sectors.

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Who are the Major Revenue-Based Investing VCs?

David Teten

Since 2017 we’ve managed $3 million in revenue-based financing, which helps cash-strapped technology companies grow. According to John Borchers, Co-founder, Decathlon is the largest revenue-based financing investor in the US. We don’t have any equity or control over the business….”. “As “ You qualify if you have $5k+ MRR.

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