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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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Venture Capital Funding and the Sexism You Can’t Quite Prove

Up and Running

At the outset, it is worth noting that when it comes to the world of venture funding, I am a bit of an outsider. Until a handful of years ago, I didn’t even know what venture capital was, let alone anything about the complicated process of actually acquiring VC funding. percent of venture capital deals, and received.33

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Every Flexible VC structure allows founders to access immediate risk capital while preserving exit, growth trajectory, and ownership optionality. . Our categorization is not a technical one. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. Andressen Horowitz,ff Venture Capital,HOF Capital, Sequoia

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My Advice To Entrepreneurs: Consider Canada For Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

By Raj Narayanaswamy, cofounder and Co-CEO, Replicon. The access to some of the world’s brightest minds in technology, the proximity to some of the industry’s most influential brands, and the vast networking opportunities in both start-up and investor communities is hard to ignore. Photo credit: Canada flag from Shutterstock.

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Why are Revenue-Based VCs investing in so many women & underrepresented founders?

David Teten

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. I have been impressed by how these venture capitalists are accomplishing a major social impact goal…without even trying to. I contacted every RBI venture capital investor I could identify, and learned: .

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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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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. I got a job at a bank, and I worked in their corporate finance group. It was all technical. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.”

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