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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? and who had biz reasons for wanting to remain stealth.”. - We spoke briefly about why.

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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. We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers.

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Four Stealth Israeli Startups with promise: Interntial, SourceFox, INEZE, Crowdspot

VC Cafe

Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners. The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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Four Stealth Israeli Startups with promise: Intential, SourceFox, INEZE, Crowdspot

VC Cafe

Currently in R&D mode and working with select partners. The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power. Self reported: Stealth-mode peronal finance security startup powered by the collective vigilance and wisdom of crowds.

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Announcing SnapTrip

The Equity Kicker

One of the things we like to do at Forward Partners is invest in companies just as they are starting up. 2) There is nowhere consumers can go which aggregates all the late availability properties in one place and guarantees the best prices. We’re attracted to this market for two reasons. Announcement Forward'

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

These three tools allow startups to focus on the parts of an early stage venture that matter the most: the product, product/market fit, customer acquisition, revenue and cost model, channels and partners. An Evidence-based Curriculum (currently taught in the Lean LaunchPad classes and NSF Innovation Corps accelerator ). Lessons Learned.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

My firm, GRP Partners, invested in the company that innovated this entire category – Overture (formerly known as GoTo.com). It’s still in stealth but plans to make announcements soon. initially captured the Internet portal revenues by aggregating eyeballs. Branded advertising has not proven successful online.