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No One Wins In Business Plan Competitions

Steve Blank

Venture Firms use the contests as another source of deal flow and talent. Filed under: Customer Development Manifesto , Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies , Teaching. Tags: Customer Development Manifesto Durant versus Sloan: Startups Verus Companies Teaching. There is no alternative.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

HOF Capital has stitched together our workflow across Google Suite , Slack , Airtable , Asana , Copper , and some other tools (leveraging Zapier for basic 3rd party integration, in addition to custom development for certain other integrations). This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow.

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

David Teten

Nick Kim , Crosscut’s Head of Platform, in his presentation at the 4th Annual VC Platform Summit, shared their Platform development methodology, which he viewed as an exercise in product development. For example, recruiting writ large is useful at all stages of development. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog.

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How to get meetings with people too busy to see you

Steve Blank

I’m not an investor, and I’m really not looking for meetings with entrepreneurs for deal flow. Filed under: Customer Development , Family/Career/Culture. Customer Development Family/Career/Culture' So I’ve come up with is a method to sort out who I take meetings with. What are you offering?

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalists on your board developed the expertise to get your firm public as soon as possible using whatever it took including hype, spin, expand, and grab market share because the sooner you got your billion dollar market cap, the sooner the VC firm could sell their shares and distribute their profits.

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

David Teten

produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. HOF Capital is currently developing a proprietary sourcing tool to automatically filter for potential deal prospects that fit our criteria. 4) Manage deal flow. VC Firm. $