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Does Fintech Disruption Break The Investment Banking Model?

YoungUpstarts

Here digital intercepts of consumer activities are aggregated into large data sets, analysed, and assessed versus market expectations. For AI’s impact on research and trading professionals, I’ll quote from Nick Granger, CIO of Man AHL, as it also provides an appropriate overall concluding remark.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. I’m very interested in additional ways to use technology to extend each of these! – OKRs for CEOs.

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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. 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 I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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Save and Print These LumaScapes to Get a Grasp on Digital Media [Infographics]

VC Cafe

These LumaScapes are quickly becoming a tool for M&A departments to make their picks and the graphs will keep evolving, says Terence Kawaja , the founder of LumaPartners and seasoned investment banker. Metacafe – Video > Aggregation. Videosurf – Video > Video Search. Cotendo – Video > CDN.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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No Mess (Too Much Liquidation Preference)

ithacaVC

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? 100,000) of transaction expenses. ($800,000) of investment banker fees assuming a banker is used.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Kevin Rose at TechCrunch , April 20, 2009: Digg founder Kevin Rose almost sold his wildly popular aggregator to Google in 2008, and subsequently turned his resources toward creating a much stronger independent business instead.