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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. In-house, brand-name guru. Is the service scaleable?

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Tech Industry Hiring In Canada Continues To Grow

YoungUpstarts

According to tech recruiters , 2019 has brought a handful of tech jobs to the forefront, such as cyber security engineering, AI/machine learning and data scientists, to name a few. This has shown that the state of hiring within the Canadian tech industry in current cities and emerging cities are growing. Job sites such as BCjobs.ca

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How To Get a Job In Venture Capital

VC Adventure

The number of new venture firms raising their first fund has increased markedly – especially since 2011 (new funds are a good barometer of the growth of the industry, and a leading indicator of job growth in venture capital). You’ll not only be helping your community, you’ll be making a name for yourself.

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Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named” and the Helsinki Spring

Steve Blank

Nokia as “He Who Must Not Be Named”. They’ve stopped hiring the best talent, and startups are not looking so risky compared to large companies. The country needs to figure out a long term privatization strategy for Venture investing. I was in Finland three days before I realized that no one had mentioned the word “Nokia.”

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive, and notifies us that a new deal has entered the pipeline via Slack. ff Venture Capital portfolio company.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

This is part 1 of a 2-part series on domain names and startups; part 2 will be “ Build Your Startup on a Vacant Domain Name ”. This bench at Cathedral Lawn is engraved with country domain names such as.uk,us,nz It is no coincidence that companies with the best domain names often tend to rise to the top of their space.

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Is the Lean Startup Dead?

Steve Blank

The billion dollars he just raised is on top of the $750 million NewTV’s parent company, WndrCo, has raised for the venture. He just hired Meg Whitman. Almost overnight the floodgates opened, and risk capital was available at scale from venture capital investors who rushed their startups toward public offerings.

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