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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. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of the 19 Western Europe/Israel-based founders, all were white. This would be easy to detect: among their portfolio companies, do startups with female founders outperform those without?

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

You start traveling around Europe, starting working for them overseas. It was all technical. Or did I want to move to Europe? I only went because I wanted to live and work in Europe. DEREK 8:33] So you’re working in Europe. I don’t know, I was just always dicking around with computers.

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. Certainly few would argue that hiring is easy, however in my experience the most significant startup talent shortage – certainly in London – comes at the earliest stage: the number of technically-minded founders. New technology for enquiring minds. Andy Young.