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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” My favorite new VC blogger, Hunter Walk, weighed in with some thoughtful comments about how Syndicates might actually pit, “ angel vs. angel.” Must be doing something right!

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

David Teten

My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. – Build out low-cost force multipliers such as scouts , Advisors, Entrepreneurs in Residence, Venture Partners, and so on. So we think about scaling a lot.

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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. This is especially true when it comes to tech companies hiring the wrong chief technology officer.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns).

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

I hired several branding agencies to help us with brainstorms and ideation sessions, but none of them worked out. Luckily I didn’t have to – a friend ended up texting me and my business partner, suggesting the name Codal. My business partner, Adam Hale, and I were both in Fort Wayne, Indiana when the company was founded.

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Startup Strategy Roundtable: Not Coming To The Rescue Of Victory

ReadWriteStart

I have seen this criticism at various places where this recap is syndicated on a weekly basis, as well as in certain random forums on the internet. As you may know, 99% of the entrepreneurs who seek financing, get rejected. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project. However, 1M/1M is a development economics project.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

In August/September 2009, the founders and I agreed to work together to raise a round of financing for the company. I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round. We pulled together about $600K of commitments and interest, for a $500K-target financing round.