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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood. . 2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 3) Raise capital. 5) Manage deal flow. 6) Due diligence.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood. . 2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 3) Raise capital. 5) Manage deal flow. 6) Due diligence.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Their late stage deals outside of the venture centers outperform by ~5% vs. those in the venture centers; early stage deals outperformed by ~4%. MCM Capital ( case study ) is a rare example of a lower middle-market private equity fund with a proactive social media strategy.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas. Howard Lindzon is Co-Founder and CEO of StockTwits, a social network for traders and investors to share real-time ideas and information.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. Over the past 15 years we’ve built this amazing membership to serve our core clients – leading investors, corporations, consulting firms, and nonprofits. Or, you can go straight to the source.

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Version 0.9. What Do You Think?

Both Sides of the Table

We’re almost always the lead investor and usually the most active, too. In the past 15 years our partners have backed nearly one company every year that was early stage and eventually exited for North of a billion dollars. Yet we wanted to be clear that we invest heavily in digital media, mobile & software companies.

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Version 2.0 and why Series Seed Documents are better than capped convertible notes

www.seriesseed.com

I hesitate to use a quote from one of the greatest people ever to grace planet earth, and certainly the question of how to structure early stage investment is a laughable cause as compared to the rights that Ghandi (also a lawyer) fought to advance.  I’ve attached version 2.0 Posted by: Brian | 01/20/2011 at 07:01 AM.