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Observations from my trip to India

Version One Ventures

Version One has made only one investment in the region ( Headout , a fast growing marketplace for travel experiences) and I had written a small LP cheque into an emerging fund manager ( 1947 Rise , run by the awesome Shiva Sangwan ). Many of the most talented entrepreneurs and engineers left India to study and then work in the US and Canada.

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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

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Still growing our team

Version One Ventures

These individuals can be entrepreneurs, engineers, PMs, data scientists, designers, creatives, writers, students, etc. Reporting for our investors, including writing quarterly updates and preparing LP advisory board meetings. Working with existing portfolio companies, including helping out with hiring, financial modeling, and research.

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Join me at Terrapinn Trading Show New York, October 6, NYC

David Teten

Fabio Mercurio, Head of Quantitative Analytics, Bloomberg LP. Head of Portfolio Management, AQR Capital Management. If you are a quant, trader, or financial engineer, limited VIP passes are available. Lukasz Pomorski, Ph.D., David Rukshin, Chief Technology Officer, WorldQuant.

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

David Teten

First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. This allows a VC to put more capital to work in their past portfolio companies with relatively little extra effort. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.

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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

In this period (less than 2 years) he has brought on incredibly talented senior execs is sales, marketing, product management, client services, finance, vp engineering and more. VCs crave the ability to help portfolio companies. You may know how much to pay in cash or equity for your new VP Engineering. Always seek input.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80). . 9% (1 / 12).