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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

In the past 5 years some of the best investors in the country could simply anoint winners by giving them large amounts of capital at high prices and then the media hype machine would create awareness, talent would race to join the next perceived $10bn winner and if the music never stops then everybody is happy. Except the music stopped.

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Why revenue shouldn’t be your North Star Metric

VC Cafe

I was recently in a board meeting for one of my portfolio companies, and we had a discussion that must happen in almost every board meeting. Did you know that companies like Airbnb, Spotify and Netflix purposely avoid setting revenue as their North Star Metric? Why is revenue not a good ‘North Star’ Metric?

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Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices

Occam's Razor

With all the sexiness oozing out of social media it might seem insane to write about email. To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. I dare say even more than Search (and without a shred of doubt, more than Social Media). You must use metrics that are unique to the medium. Outcomes.

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Digital marketers are the tech industry’s trailblazers, according to Pathrise

The Startup Magazine

This includes creating content like blog posts, videos, social media posts, and more. Not only do SEO and CMS skills stand out on a resume, but they can also be demonstrated in a portfolio to further impress recruiters. A recent e-commerce study found that emails have more than double the conversion rate of social media campaigns.

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Twitter Link Roundup #198 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

These posts and videos are about logo design , web design , startups, entrepreneurship, small business, leadership, social media, marketing, and more! Great post on the most important internet metric of them all – CONVERSION – crowdspring.co/18u6N8Y. Here are some of the links that I’ve liked and shared this past week!

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Pre-Seed: faster deck reviews, longer fundraising time

VC Cafe

What most improved your primary metric? So don’t be shy, and either reach out on social media or drop me a line (eze at remagineventures). Most of these can sound like common sense, but you’d be surprised how many founders skip this initial research. Weeks to launch? Users/prospective users talked to in the last week?