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

David Teten

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. 2) Raise capital.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. Could they excel at customer development with enterprises? Mari Holds a B.A.