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

David Teten

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.

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7 Common Mistakes Startups Make on Accelerator Program Applications

mashable.com

Thinking of applying to one (or all) of the summer accelerator/incubator/angel/mentoring programs like TechStars , Joystick Labs , or any of those found on this comprehensive list ? I’ve reviewed hundreds of startup pitches and I can tell you that everyone makes the same types of errors. And a lie by omission is twice the lie.)