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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. VC Platform community has grown approximately 120% in the last 3 years. Organize events in your vertical. All content is developed and delivered by the Real Ventures partners.

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5 Steps To Finding The Best Investor For Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Marty Zwilling

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . My Partners at HOF Capital are younger than I am, which means that we have a half-century horizon for the franchise we are building. So we think about scaling a lot.

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What Makes a Successful Startup Community? Is it Possible to Build One Where You Live?

Both Sides of the Table

Recently I wrote a post arguing to make the definition of a Startup more inclusive than that to which Silicon Valley, fueled by Venture Capital return profiles, would sometimes like to attach to the word. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 2

Both Sides of the Table

I was on This Week in Venture Capital (TWiVC) again this week with Jason Calacanis. In fact, their affiliate partners dissuaded them from doing so. But Twitter.com (which will likely improve dramatically on UI, I’m guessing) will be the main event for Twitter search. Google had huge destination traffic.

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5 Keys To Vetting Investors Before You Accept Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Reverse due diligence on the investor is a comparable process whereby the entrepreneur seeks to validate the track record, operating style, and motivation of every potential partner. Check for positive or negative news articles, press releases, relationships, and support of community organizations. Marty Zwilling.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Google Ventures (GV). Greylock Partners.