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You’ll Need At Least Two of These Four Qualifications to Get Hired By a Venture Firm

Hunter Walker

Qualification #1: You know how to do something specific that is valuable and needed often in pursuing a deal or servicing the portfolio. Whatever it is, it helps diligence opportunities, win deals or service the portfolio in ways that make the founders and GPs feel good. The company you’re currently working at. Notes and More.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

This past summer, the Lightspeed Summer Fellowships program invited selected guests to provide aspiring entrepreneurs a perspective into all aspects of starting a new company. The program provides entrepreneurs the resources and mentoring they need to build their companies and develop their skills. ” The Cost of Financing.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

5000 companies, only 6.5% Where else can fast-growing companies get funding? A new category of VCs have emerged offering a hybrid between VC and RBI, which we call “Flexible VC”. . Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Of the Inc.

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Airbnb Reflections

Reid Hoffman

That’s when I realized I might need to change my view of the company. As is my usual practice, I’d checked references on the founders before I met with them. So I got the license to put a term sheet down, and we made the investment. The investor listened, and told me, “Yeah, it’s about so much more than that.”

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. To quote a friend, if you’re an executive at an established company, your job is to blow on the ice cube to delay its melting as long as possible.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Other investors are using Trello , Basecamp , and Monday for making sure that everyone at the firm knows one anothers’ long-term OKRs and short-term projects. 1) Manage the firm .

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Building The Machine Podcast Episode 5: Dan Kimerling Deciens Capital

Eric Friedman

I lovingly call him the curmudgeon of fintech – in this episode we go deep into how he is building a venture capital firm and practice, not just running a fund and how he views the world of fintech investing. Dan is the co-founder of Standard Treasury, a Y Combinator backed company. On “F **g with Banks” and Deciens’ Focus.