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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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Top Pros And Cons Of Starting A Tutoring Business

The Startup Magazine

Starting a tutoring business has minimal start-up costs, which is great for people who want to start a business but don’t possess the capital to invest. All you really need is word-of-mouth advertising coupled with a basic social media marketing strategy and some flyers and posters in key areas around town. Bottom Line.

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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Small fine-tuned models as an alternative to giant generic ones – when finely tuned with appropriate data, smaller, specialised LLMs can yield comparable results at a fraction of the cost.

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The Long Economic Case for Snapchat

Both Sides of the Table

Any which way, Snapchat has large “reach,” which is a key measure for any advertiser. Reach matters to advertisers for an obvious reason. Immediacy is tremendously important in advertising. That’s why live TV events are great for advertisers. It also makes purchasing more cost effective.

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Stories of Opportunity from the First Round Capital Key Hire Wire – VP of Sales, CTO, VP of Engineering

This is going to be BIG.

We realized that there were certain open positions in our portfolio we wanted to call extra attention to. Using Monetate Real-time Marketer, companies are boosting sales while slashing costs and time-to-market. We have a strong preference for candidates with experience working with advertising systems written in C or C++.

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How to Remain King of the World amidst Titanic Disruptions

Lightspeed Venture Partners

To bring an additional perspective to the conversation, I invited Lightspeed portfolio companies BloomReach, EdgeSpring, MapR, Nutanix, PernixData and Virtual Instruments who are focused on helping companies store, manage, analyze, and surface next-generation data and content. Advertising supported. A la carte. Video on Demand.

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16 PR Strategies Every Small Business Should Stop Using Right Now

Up and Running

A marketing/PR agency may have a flashy portfolio that impresses you with their big name clients, but for a startup or small business, paying thousands each month to such an agency isn’t going to be good bang for your (limited) buck. Expensive Agencies. Press Release Wires. Traditional distribution services no longer work.

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