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

David Teten

First Round Search , Startupschool , and GSV Passport are examples of comprehensive founder resources from investors. The ability to answer quickly and confidently when your business model is having holes poked in it during diligence is really powerful. For negotiation with providers, consider Buyer.co. AskAnything.VC

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

And it's similar sort of metaphor, you know, like what it's like to be, you know, to start a business. Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. Business model. Find files faster with visual search and AI auto-tagging.

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SXSW Pitch Finalist: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

See Betmarkets talk about their business model in the category Innovative World Technology between 5 and 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. If I had not accepted this amazing challenge, I would still be working as an investment banker in London. It’s that simple!

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SXSW Pitch Finalists: Betmarkets

Austin Startup

See Betmarkets talk about their business model in the category Innovative World Technology between 5 and 6 pm Saturday, March 14, before a live audience and a panel of expert judges. If I had not accepted this amazing challenge, I would still be working as an investment banker in London. It’s that simple!

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Is the Unicorn Endangered or Extinct?

Professor VC

investment bankers, while the dot com bubble was driven by investment bankers willing and able to convince institutional and retail investors that companies didn''t need to have a business model or even a way to exist without relying on additional investment. Just like Unicorns as imagined by a child.

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Planning for a Harvest - Startups and angels: Along the way to success

Tim Keane

Have they done a lot/a few/ no transactions with Investment Bankers? Have they done a lot/a few/ no transactions with Investment Bankers? Greg Gianforte: Bootstrapping Your Business: Start And Grow a Successful Company With Almost No Money. How long is their buy cycle? How do they like to be approached?

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

David Teten

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking.