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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. I’ve listed below my current social media toolkit. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **. Crunchbase.

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Fundraising Hacks for Venture Capital and Private Equity Funds

David Teten

Historically, the process of winning capital from limited partners has been opaque. However, in the last few years a few have started to use social media and become more transparent. LIMITED PARTNERS’ PERSPECTIVE. Origins is a podcast about Limited Partners, created by VC Notation Capital.

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The LP Opportunity to Change Tech Culture

thebarefootvc

Limited partners (LPs), who manage the capital that gets deployed into venture capital funds, can play an important role in diversifying the funding landscape. Limited partners are pension funds, university endowments, funds of funds (who get their money from pension funds), family offices and foundations.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

VCs opened up through the use of social media, and people like Jason Calacanis, regardless of what you think of his personality, actively campaigned against the toll takers on the road to capital. What would VC fundraising look like if there were family office groups that participated actively on social media? Things changed.

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

David Teten

A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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How to Build a Startup & Understanding Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Venture capitalists raise money with a goal of returning 4x the amount they raise to their Limited Partners (LPs). And if you do happen to be lucky and find the right mountain to climb, if you find that you’ve started ascending the peak before others have found the right trail — then venture capital is for you. I hope you enjoy it.

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High Functioning vs. Low Functioning Startup Boards

Both Sides of the Table

Every year I invited my largest investors to NYC to have an LPAC meeting (Limited Partner Advisory Committee?—?kind Some board members spend all of their time in the meeting on electronic devices doing email or even checking social media. I practice what I preach. kind of like a board for a VC firm). I’ve seen both quite a bit.

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