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Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller

SoCal CTO

He has a really interesting background as a product manager and now an entrepreneur. Like many product managers, my background is fairly eclectic. I was in charge of all product management and marketing for the first year-and-a-half, that was a great learning experience with a very talented team of folks.

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6 Strategies To Find An Investor For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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6 Tips On Where And When To Look For Startup Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

The advantages are many, including avoiding all the cost, pain, and distractions of finding and managing external investors, allowing you to retain full control and all your hard-earned equity for yourself. But operating in stealth mode, or waiting for that perfect investor to find you, or feeling entitled, is even less effective.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health. Investors are looking for your depth of talent, loyalty and commitment, strengths and weaknesses, teamwork, and management style. Product or service readiness.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: Team strength and health. Investors are looking for your depth of talent, loyalty and commitment, strengths and weaknesses, teamwork, and management style. Product or service readiness.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Gust

All private equity groups go about due diligence in their own way, but there are a few key areas of focus that entrepreneurs should always expect: • Team strength and health. Investors are looking for your depth of talent, loyalty and commitment, strengths and weaknesses, teamwork, and management style. Product or service readiness.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. HOF has to do this manually today with regard to our own investments into each company.