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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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Building a Great Startup Board Pt. 2

Reid Hoffman

Nearly all startups go through a “valley of the shadow death” moment when founders and investors realize that the company is facing major, even existential challenges. But it could also be a non-financial challenge, like being a social media company and facing attacks from multiple points of the political spectrum.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

How I Think About Seed Investing As A VC - Feld Thoughts , August 2, 2010 Last week saw an explosion of discussion around seed investing, including plenty of negative comments around VCs as seed investors. While I agree that many VCs are crummy seed investors, I think there are some that are excellent seed investors.

Startup 191
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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

Panel 1 – How Social Investing is Disrupting Traditional Investing in Public Securities. 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.

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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.