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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

O perations – We work closely with a pool of preferred service providers who address the operational challenges of early-stage companies: accounting, financial modeling, sales acceleration, legal and regulatory needs, insurance, real estate, engineering, and community building. This is roughly comparable to PRNewswire’s distribution service.

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Public Hospital Modern Woes – Aging Infrastructure, Unions, Pensions, High Regulation. 

The Startup Magazine

By that time investment bankers were on a roll privatizing assets as far flung as Chilean Electricity Distribution Rights, Montreal’s container port, parking meters in Chicago, sections of the Pennsylvania turnpike, the London City airport, and (the proposed) CA & FL Lottery systems. Ironically, given the U.S.’s

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

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .

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The Playbook for Scale Up Nation

Seeing Both Sides

According to Izhar Shay, a general partner at Canaan Partners, “The investment community has matured to recognize they need to plan for scale. According to Modi Rosen, general partner of Magma Ventures, “The challenge of scaling is primarily in hiring for the sales and marketing front. Think Bigger.

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Swipe debit card, get stock; In defense of the IPO; New models for SMB lending, and more

Ben's Blog

Whether it’s Yotta encouraging emergency savings accounts, Dave.com providing overdraft protection, or Stash enabling broad participation in public market investing, I believe that the private sector could be an inflection point for the country’s financial health – and that fintechs will lead the way.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

Coinbase's IPO reflects the massive growth in interest and investment in cryptocurrencies, such as Bitcoin and Ethereum around the world. Can institutions be totally distributed or should they be rooted and loyal to a certain community or geography? Do we need more regulation in this area or less?

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