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

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. There’s also a huge amount of luck in timing and amount of exits, so it’s also hard to compensate an internal “M&A investment banker” fairly for expediting an exit, given they may deserve zero credit. . AskAnything.VC

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

David Teten

See their blog post on multiples.). Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page; Point Nine Capital uses Recruitee for the same purpose. Modano standardizes Excel models to improve comparability and reduce error rates. 10) Report.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. Beh Weng Wei at Tech65.org Emily May at The Pixel Project , Jan. 9, 2012: Thanks to Emily May’s Hollaback!

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No Mess (Too Much Liquidation Preference)

ithacaVC

Nothing better than sitting at LGA writing blog posts. So, after the Series B round the company would have $13mm of aggregate liquidation preference ($3mm plus 2*$5mm). Yet, it is able to attract more investment capital. Is the $13mm of aggregate LP a problem? Bottom line: we weary of building up too much aggregate LP.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. Add micro payments services like Square to the equation and very soon we will begin to hear investment bankers start to cry foul like journalists and recording industry executives have been doing since Napster.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

But if I see a really great piece of work product, I generally will just try to, say hey, let's post this on the blog externally. ER : Oh, if it's worth doing, it's worth blogging about. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And so I think we saved. We got so many positive inbounds from that.

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