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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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Dan Lok Explains Venture Capital Funding and How to Secure It

The Startup Magazine

Venture capital is a type of private equity. The downside to venture capital is that the company or individual doing investing generally get equity in the company. One difference between venture capital and private equity deals, in general, is that venture capital focuses on emerging companies.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Startup Funding – A Comprehensive Guide for Entrepreneurs

ReadWriteStart

Any custom manufactured IoT device would require software development as well as hardware customization. Forms of funding. ? Equity investment. Equity investment is the most popular and most talked-about avenue for startup funding. These investments are made instead of shares or equity in your startup. Bootstrapping.

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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For ideas, see How Executives Can Work from Home with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds. It’s worth investing a little money in a graphic designer who can design a consistent website, business card, logo, and presentation templates. . Set up a Data Room, with a filled-out Due Diligence Questionnaire (“DDQ”).

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On Expert Networks, Compliance, the Drunk and the Lamppost

David Teten

Expert networks have been in the news a lot for the past few weeks, due to the SEC’s attempt to look for insider trading amongst hedge funds, following on their Galleon investigation (Raj Rajaratnam of Galleon is in the photo shown). The best source of information on this topic is as usual the Integrity Research blog.

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Awesome Austin Tech Events, May 8–15

Austin Startup

Some of the most interesting events in Austin for the week of May 8 through May 14 are as follows: Mon, May 8 thru Thurs, May 11: OSCON OSCON brings the software engineering and developer community together to explore what’s new and useful in open source languages, tools, and techniques. At the Austin Convention Center. $99-$3895