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Marketing Your Portfolio Companies to Other Investors

David Teten

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. I regularly meet with other VCs, and based on their criteria, I share with them whichever portfolio companies fit their areas of interest. . Every one-paragraph summary of a company should ideally have: – Company name and website.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

One would think entrepreneurs would never want less available cash – until such time as their competitors ridiculously and unnecessarily all raise $50 million in the name of a “land grab” thus making it much harder for your totally reasonable company to attract investors. What is one to do?

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How to Leverage Micro VC Funds to Build an Angel Portfolio

This is going to be BIG.

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. Diversification Finance 101 would tell you that, in the public market, you want to be in at least 20-30 names to eliminate a good chunk of the risk (as defined by the standard deviation of return) that you don’t actually get paid for.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive. 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. 3) Raise capital. 5) Manage deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive. 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. 3) Raise capital. 5) Manage deal flow.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. Instead, the driver was the 1983 bull market. Put a willing and forgiving exit market following any investment period and you get spectacular returns. This isn’t true.

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

David Teten

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **.