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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood. . 2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 9) Accelerate portfolio company value. 6) Due diligence.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood. . 2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 9) Accelerate portfolio company value. 6) Due diligence.

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Lightspeed is growing our Consumer Investing team

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Since then, as a team, we’ve been fortunate enough to invest behind the vision of the founders of some tremendous consumer companies across messaging, social media, e-commerce, Internet of Things, marketplaces and gaming. His full time job is CEO of Cheddar , the OTT video company he founded, and where Lightspeed is the lead investor.

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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. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors. Some corporate funds now lead rounds.

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

Like many established finance & media companies, GLG knows that the tech startup sector is a growing part of the economy. I’ve also presented at a range of industry conferences on how institutional investors can use professional networks for research , origination , market research , and value creation.

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How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier

ReadWriteStart

Jeff Clavier was the first tech investor I ever met; he was introduced to me years ago by some hip engineers in a bar as "one of the few cool VCs." Money man and pundit Paul Kedrosky also spoke at the International Startup Festival and offered humorous, blunt advice about how to get what you want from investors and investment bankers.

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EMC buys portfolio company Greenplum - more behind the story

BeyondVC

Little do people know that when Dawntreader first funded Dali Media along with Impact Venture Partners and Primedia Ventures that the company was called Dali Media and then Metapa, standing for media to all places. The guys at Dali Media, Metapa, and Greenplum surely did not and created a phenomenal exit for all involved.

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