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Startup advice you haven't heard before

Spencer Fry

It's like walking up to the investment banker or a lawyer at a party who’s wearing a light blue button up, dark slacks, and brown loafers -- just like every other investment banker I've ever met. A good jumping off place is to start using conversational copy rather than rattling off statements with no meaning at all.

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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. Build a network of on-call domain experts, who will have short conversations with portfolio management, typically at no cost. . For negotiation with providers, consider Buyer.co. AskAnything.VC Minimal cost. .

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How to Raise Investment Capital - According to VC Jeff Clavier

ReadWriteStart

Money man and pundit Paul Kedrosky also spoke at the International Startup Festival and offered humorous, blunt advice about how to get what you want from investors and investment bankers. Kedrosky: "In the 90's I was an analyst through all this [tech investment and IPO] madness. Think about when LinkedIn went public.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

They might be ideas they hatch internally (via a Foundry) or a founder who just left SpaceX and raises money to search for an idea. Before Twitter he held similar roles at SuccessFactors (SaaS), Akamai (telecoms infrastructure), McAfee (Security Software) and was an investment banker. The legends of Silicon Valley?—?two

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The UK’s New Generation Of Young Business Leaders

YoungUpstarts

Using his financial background working as an investment banker for Goldman Sachs, he launched All Shades Covered in 2016. Jonny Grubin followed another familiar path to young entreprenuers, turning a good conversation into real action that has seen him through to success. Jonny Grubin and SoPost.

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Grinfucking

Feld Thoughts

I first heard the word “ grinfucker ” a decade or so ago from a close friend who was a former investment banker. A quick Google search generated a post from Mark Suster titled Don’t be a Grin Fucker. ” I loved the word and, as I found out later, it described the person perfectly.

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18 Entrepreneurs Explain What They Did Prior to Starting Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

6 – Investment Banker. I founded SilkRoll in 2015, I spent 10 years developing my style and taste in fashion while working around the world as an investment banker. That exit conversation was memorable. I even have 100,000 FB followers and over 200,000 active traders and subscribers. Image Credit: Janet Wu.