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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place. Robotaxis – Robotaxi platforms could create $28 trillion in enterprise value in 2030.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

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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. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Posted on September 14, 2009 by steveblank Over the last 30 years Wall Street’s appetite for technology stocks have changed radically – swinging between unbridled enthusiasm to believing they’re all toxic. 3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. Each VC firm/partner has a different spin on what to weigh more.)

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Putting Twitter’s IPO in Perspective

Agile VC

Well it’s not clear that media businesses, in aggregate, are inherently more valuable than e-commerce or premium services companies in aggregate [see Note 1 below regarding categorization]. To be fair the broad equity markets are up strongly over this time period, but clearly growth has been strongly favored.

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How To Staff A Startup With (Almost) No Money

ReadWriteStart

Last month, the 17-year-old sold Summly , his news-aggregation app, to Yahoo for a reported $30 million! That’s why so many entrepreneurs try to leverage equity. Because the platform lets curators distribute digests in their own names. Guest author Gary Whitehill is Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Startup Weekend. Life Hacks.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

Technology : If you are a technology company, it’s critical for your business plan to describe your technology and what your “secret sauce” is. You don’t have to give away trade secrets in your business plan, but you do need to describe how your technology is different and better than other solutions out there.