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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. As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? Organize events in your vertical. AskAnything.VC

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: VCs Are Not Always Right

ReadWriteStart

Finally, for those of you who need some additional infusion of courage, please study the story of Ryan Allis in North Carolina who bootstrapped his company iContact to $1 million in revenue and THEN raised venture capital to get to $40 million. Statisco Economic Analytics. Is it inventory risk that Statisco manages well?

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Startups Are Leading The Telehealth Charge – But What Does This Mean For Future Health?

The Startup Magazine

As the pandemic drags on and patients grow to telehealth services, let’s take a look at three industry verticals which are being driven by startup innovation. Pitchbook reports venture capital funding of US mental health startups as already surpassing the entirety of capital raised for 2019. Mental health.

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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. . In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. 3) Raise capital. 1) Manage the firm .

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Customer Development: Past, Present, Future

Steve Blank

For example, our company finances renewable energy installations (solar, fuel cell, etc.) Reply Joe , on November 23, 2009 at 4:39 pm Said: This is an awesome post and I really appreciate the availability of the slides as well as the video. I also like the segment on characterizing your market. Sometimes that can be hard.

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30 Entrepreneurs Share Their Thoughts on the Future of Entrepreneurship

Hearpreneur

Even more, advances in data analytics are giving startups the ability to gain valuable insights into customer trends that can be used to develop more successful strategies for growth. In addition, established businesses will be able to benefit from advances in artificial intelligence and analytics thanks to data-driven customer insights.

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Raising Money Using Customer Development

Steve Blank

Unfortunately in early stage startups the drive for financing hijacks the corporate DNA and becomes the raison d’etre of the company. Chasing funding versus chasing customers and a repeatable and scalable business model, is one reason startups fail.