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

David Teten

Jeff Pomeranz, Partner at Right Side Capital , said, “The biggest investment of resources with our tech platform relates to the capturing and maintenance of data on our huge portfolio of 1100+ evolving tech companies. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center.

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Why we need to teach MBA’s about modern entrepreneurship (and what Harvard Business School is doing about it)

Startup Lessons Learned

In fact, this crisis was at the heart of Steve Blank ’s original impetus to develop customer development as an alternative set of milestones to use for startups.) Back in my IMVU days, I met with an investment banker who wanted to help us understand the M&A landscape. I also frequently see the reverse.