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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities. engineers, designers, business developers). Manhattan, New York City, in 1911. Previously posted on PEHub.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

It’s the basis for much of modern design. We also wanted to avoid any potential brand confusion with words such as New York City, Metro, Gotham, etc. Additionally, not limiting ourselves to a New York-linked name allowed us the eventual freedom to produce in other cities without having to qualify ourselves.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

a New York-based sizzle reel production company specializing in promotional videos for PR and marketing professionals, and the Young Entrepreneur Council. From a technical standpoint, in addition to being a skilled programmer, the CTO should have a background in architecture and database design. Have an account?

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Avoiding the Common Pitfalls of Securing Capital: Innovative Financing Options for Today’s Startups

ReadWriteStart

Yes, there are other pressing considerations, too, such as connecting the product itself with a buyer and building a reliable team of workers to help design and create it. The fact is, securing capital for a startup is one of the most difficult parts of starting a business.

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Twitter Link Roundup #224 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Klyati Trehan , a design student from India created a phenomenally impressive project, combining science and typography to visually represent 26 inventions that have changed the world.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Most of the other processs changes - mandatory design reviews (prelimninary, critical, etc), - documenting all our procedures, and so on - were to support those two factors. It might be more precise to categorize them of two kinds of flaws: flaws in implementation, and flaws in design. Im keen on the two-kinds-of-bugs thing.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

They have hundreds, if not thousands, of engineers, world-class design studios, subject matter experts from supply chain to manufacturing. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate.