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

David Teten

I’ve listed them below in *very* roughly descending order of efficiency, measured by increased dollars one can put to work, divided by the operational dollars required to implement each strategy. . Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Her work included heading Nokia’s location-based services business and app portfolio for emerging markets, which she built from a back-of-a-napkin idea to a 100-person organization with over 10 million users. But most commonly these are customer relationships: the operating unit becomes one of the startup’s first or largest customers.

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

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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Will Seed Funds Be Multigenerational?

Hunter Walker

New GPs are hired or grown, and in several cases, the bench strength seems to be there. You also have a version of strategic expansion (or scope creep if you’re less kind), where some firms started as focused 1-2 GP shops but are now 3-7 GPs, with operational staff and increasingly large fund sizes. In others, TBD.

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The Summer Solstice And Seed Stage Squeeze

Haystack

And if you don’t hit one or two right, you end up with a mediocre portfolio. Many of these new data-driven funds are hiring experienced VCs across early stages and building outposts in the Bay Area. If you hit one or two right, you can make a fortune in seed. But those bets take a long time to get liquid.

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The Different CTO Roles

www.allthingsdistributed.com

But then subsequently, the CTO isresponsible for actually integrating and running the technology, i.e. the roleof the ‘operations manager.’ In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires. The CIO retains the responsibility for howtechnology is actually used within the organization.

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Introducing Bolster Prime and Bolster Ventures (and their back story)

OnlyOnce

” While the founding team was exploring potential business opportunities that allowed us to make a bigger impact on the world, Silicon Valley Bank and High Alpha Innovation were together envisioning a platform to help VC-backed portfolio companies more effectively navigate the complex world of executive talent needs. Enter Jenny Lawton.