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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. – Launch a venture capital fund of funds. – Go public.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

” We talked about my influences as a younger person and what got me started in technology and entrepreneurship. 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.

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Why it is hard for VCs to say ‘no’ and why that ‘no’ could be good news for an entrepreneur

The Next Web

Editor’s note: Andrej Kiska is an associate at Prague-based Credo Ventures. Prior to Credo, Andrej worked at an early growth fund Benson Oak, the first backer of AVG Technologies . Not all entrepreneurs are aware of the responsibilities associated with receiving venture capital. VCs are arrogant. VCs are cowards.

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Nailing that elusive technical co-founder

www.kernelmag.com

New technology for enquiring minds. The Scene Developers Nailing that elusive technical co-founder. It’s long been observed that the barriers to creating a technology start-up have been falling over the past decade or so. There are certainly many talented technical people out there. The Kernel. Thursday, 8 March 2012.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tech Gadgets Mobile Enterprise GreenTech CrunchBase TechCrunch TV Disrupt SF More TechCrunch TV Beta Invites Crunchies Elevator Pitches Gillmor Gang Podcasts TechCrunch Europe TechCrunch Trends TechCrunch France TechCrunch Japan Whats Hot: Android Apple Facebook Google Microsoft Twitter Yahoo Zynga Subscribe: From Nothing To Something.

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Kinnernet 2006 – geek camp

BeyondVC

Kinnernet is a techie geek camp organized and run by Yossi Vardi (cofounder of ICQ). At Kinnernet, I had the privilege to spend time with some great people from Israel, Europe, and the US. I suggest checking out Jeff Pulver’s blog and going to Flickr and searching for Kinnernet2006 for pictures and more thoughts on Kinnernet.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (VC): Antonio Rodriguez [link] – A very technical VC at Matrix partners who can actually code. This video should be the gold standard in explaining contract terms. Hoptoad [link] – Collects production application errors, groups them so developers can see one backtrace and how many times the error occurred.