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Inaugural Investor Day @ FinTech Innovation Lab

David Teten

On Friday morning, I witnessed another volley of shots being fired from New York City at Palo Alto during FinTech Innovation Lab ‘s Inaugural Investor Day. The Lab is a collaboration between the New York City Investment Fund and Accenture, with support from the New York banking community.

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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. This allows a VC to put more capital to work in their past portfolio companies with relatively little extra effort. – Provide hands-on operational support for portfolio companies.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

This is particularly true in New York, where their traditional financial services industry client base has sustained significant damage since the 2008 financial crisis. In fact, some VCs have developed technologies to give portfolio executives searchable access to their Linkedin and CRM, similar on a small scale to what GLG offers.

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Circle Media Merges with New York-based S3i Digital

SiliconHills

Circle Media, based in Austin, announced that it has merged with S3i Digital, based in New York. The company is part of the portfolio of the Austin Technology Incubator (ATI) of the University of Texas. Mark Piening, Circle Media president and founder, used to work at Bazaarvoice.

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How do you find a startup investor?

The Startup Magazine

They’re looking to diversify their portfolio from just stocks and bonds. It will be easier to get in touch with VCs if you live where the startup scene is huge, such as San Francisco or New York. Startup Incubator or Accelerator. A successful startup can yield a pot of gold if there’s an initial public offering.

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How to Decrease the Odds That Your Startup Fails

Both Sides of the Table

Storage is what’s known as “highly fragmented,” meaning easier for a new entrant to get traction if it could design a better product / service / experience. Our portfolio company Ring had a new “security doorbell” which is truly a new market. Incumbent Strengths & Weaknesses. Competition.

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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. New York Times’ timeSpace is a good example. Mari has been a serial intrapreneur for a large part of her career.