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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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[Review] Startup Guide For The Technopreneur

YoungUpstarts

If these are the kinds of questions you have, the book “ Start-Up Guide for the Technopreneur, + Website: Financial Planning, Decision Making and Negotiating from Incubation to Exit ” is likely to be of help. So you find yourself asking, “But why aren’t they investing in me “?

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A Look at What’s Fueling Startup Investments in Colombia

ReadWriteStart

Colombia has a few industries with massive potential for disruptive transformation , in particular, health and finance. Ruta N.com, a public-joint venture established in 2009, also helped the city earn significant attention by providing landing services, office space, and incubation for startups. Industry gaps.

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ESADE Business School Commencement Speech

Steve Blank

Cheered on by finance professors, Wall Street analysts, investors and hedge funds, companies have learned how to make metrics like Internal Rate of Return look great by one; outsourcing everything, two, getting assets off their balance sheet, and three only investing in things that pay off fast. We legalized robbing the corporate treasury.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. We’re backed by Bessemer Venture Partners, Silver Lake Partners, and individual investors like Ron Conway, among others. Or, you can go straight to the source.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 4

Both Sides of the Table

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. VC Financings: 1. Wildfire was one of the darlings of the fbFund incubator program. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. Wildfire Interactive.

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The Boston Consumer Tech Year In Review

Rob Go

And that’s true pretty much across the board – from exits, late stage financings, scaling companies, and seed activity. The company also never raised any previous financing, and is one of the great bootstrapped success stories out there. Gemvara: Custom Jewelry company raised $15M from Balderton and scaling very rapidly.