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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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MyDawa: Revolutionizing Healthcare with AI

ReadWriteStart

Private equity firm Alta Semper Capital has provided a financing injection of twenty million dollars to the e-health business MyDawa, which is based in Kenya. In order to go forward with its expansion goals, MyDawa recently finished the acquisition of Guardian Health, a well-known healthcare provider in Uganda.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . But in business, you want a lot of partners.

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5 Venture Periods Call For Unique Funding Strategies

Startup Professionals Musings

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

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Lessons for the DoD – From Ukraine and China

Steve Blank

Another startup is providing a resilient, mesh local area network for secure tactical communications supporting ground units. They know this and know that weapons that can be built at a fraction of the cost and upgraded via software will destroy their existing business models. In the U.S., ” Acquire at Speed.

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5 Startup Stages And The Right Investors For Each One

Startup Professionals Musings

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. You are now entering the rollout stage , with money required for marketing, hiring a full-time team, and a production process.

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Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2020 Lesson Learned Presentations

Steve Blank

And the trick is we use the same Lean LaunchPad / I-Corps curriculum — and kept the same class structure – experiential, hands-on, driven this time by a mission -model not a business model. Mission-driven entrepreneurship is the answer to students who say, “I want to give back.

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