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

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. I’ve listed below my current social media toolkit. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **.

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How to Break into a Senior Business Position at a Growing Startup

This is going to be BIG.

Who wouldn’t accept an invite to “A networking breakfast where 7 midstage startups will be able to give short demos to the CEO/COO/Head of Business Development/etc for Big Interesting Company X that has huge reach/distribution/userbase, etc.” Media is a great opportunity for companies as well.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. Flexible VC creates early liquidity which can be either reinvested or distributed to LPs. Early liquidity.

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With So Many Options for Marketing Your Business, What Content Should You Promote Where?

David Teten

Social media presence. Social media presence. To the extent possible, we try to use our social media presence to point back to our website, our Partners, and/or our portfolio companies’ websites. Your company (or your fund, if you’re a VC) typically has a 7-layer stack of marketing content. Email templates.

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Why Was Winter in Venture Capital Funding so Short?

Both Sides of the Table

While the M&A story has been widely reported perhaps far fewer people know that Limited Partners (LPs), the people who fund VC firms, have finally been able to restock their coffers in the past 4 years with significantly more money coming to them in distributions than capital calls to fund VC firm investments.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

No three-way business models and no content, media, advertising-based companies. No distributed teams, no overseas teams, and definitely no companies that rely on “outsourcing” to build their core technology. Hyper-local : The entire team should be located in the SF Bay Area.