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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . Richard Dukas, CEO, Dukas Linden Public Relations , said, “If you don’t have a website and have no material online presence, you likely won’t get past the first hurdle with potential investors.”.

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The impact of social media on cryptocurrency prices and market trends

Transformify

We will look at how social media affects cryptocurrency pricing and market movements in this post. Many bitcoin investors now primarily rely on social media sites like Facebook , Reddit , and Twitter for information exchange and real-time discussion. As investors respond to the news, this may result in large price changes.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten

Research from BCG, Harvard Business Review, First Round Capital, the Kauffman Foundation, and Illuminate Ventures shows that investors in diverse teams get better returns: Paul Graham , cofounder of Y Combinator (2015): “Many suspect that venture capital firms are biased against female founders. According to Pitchbook data , only 21.6%

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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

15 years ago we were at the peak of Internet hype with the launch of many over-capitalized businesses with a market size & opportunity was limited. The VC market has right-sized (returned back to mid 90′s levels & less competition). But markets value high growth over short-term profitability. Where are we today?

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Sharp Elbows Among Seed VCs

View from Seed

Today, we are seeing less syndication of seed rounds and sharper elbows among many of the funds in the market. This post will try to describe why this is happening and what repercussions are for founders and investors. Similarly, the seed market is beginning to look like this too. These two forces go hand in hand.

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How to raise money for your startup from VCs and investors in Asia

The Next Web

The final piece of my four-part guide to expanding a business into Asia is tailored more towards local startups and a big issue that affects many of them: raising funding from investors. Asia has far fewer VC firms and institutional investors, each of which invests a far smaller amount of capital. Thus, VCs have the upper hand.

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Do my startup’s lawyers need to be local?

Austin Startup

Even with modern technology that enables casting a wider net for your market reach, most professionals rely significantly on a local client base. If that local base doesn’t exist, they move to where one does, or they change their practice to mirror the local market. I don’t mean to sound cynical about all of this.