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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

The other most common focus areas for platform teams are to employ talent and PR/marketing experts who give advice to portfolio companies on strategy in these areas and have relationships and discounts with pre-vetted agencies who can deliver the work. The GP-LP structure used by most funds is a brake on innovation here too.

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How VC’s Source

Rob Go

” Surprisingly, this isn’t just an LP kind of question, I actually get this a lot from founders or even just friends who are not directly involved in the startup community. It’s mostly about having a great machine to leverage and optimize many (if not all) marketing channels that are important.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

So make sure you have a solid PR strategy. Understanding PR & Crisis Management. How to Work with PR Firms. Make sure good PR is underpinning your fund raising efforts. And PR also has a way of generating inbound funding opportunities. That is best done through back channeling, where possible.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. The most frequently used channel to research people is unsurprisingly Linkedin , followed by Twitter.