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

David Teten

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. aggregates resources from all the VCs.

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Starting Up In Singapore (Part I) – Product/Market Fit

YoungUpstarts

Startups in this category have the know how, mindset, confidence and product differentiation to address the global market from day one. If you need to partner with other businesses to reach customers/users who are consumers. For e.g. platforms, market places, aggregators, advertising networks… chances are you are a B2B2C company.

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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

He then worked in consulting which gave him a broad base of business experience working with the newspaper, cable, and advertising industries. Richard De Silva is based in Menlo Park with three other partners, there and 5 partners in Boston. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Does each business partner own an equal portion of the business? Investors will want to know what advantages you have over the competition and how you plan on differentiating yourself. How do you plan on differentiating from the competition? Advertising. Will you be advertising online? Are you an LLC ? An S-corp ?

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

om.co

He is a venture partner at True Ventures. But it was a conversation with Toni Schneider (now CEO of Automattic, the on-demand WordPress service), and a venture partner at True that made it all come together. The niche audiences were slower to develop, and advertising support never really showed up. And so we built our company.

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How to Pitch, Plan, and Track Your Business with LivePlan [VIDEO]

Up and Running

A persona is an aggregate of all the traits that your customers have, so that it becomes your most common customer. At the end of the day, what you want to do, is be able to move from that fishbowl of all the other businesses running around in the rat race, and differentiate yourself, and be that outlier and move to your own fishbowl.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Today I’m announcing that GRP Partners is doubling down on the Twitter ecosystem by investing in DataSift , a company who provides a real-time data platform and tools to third-party developers and corporations. Some will cite my investment two years ago in social-media advertising company Ad.ly

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