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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. An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. But we’re doing it slowly.

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The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table?

Version One Ventures

Are you looking for help and expertise in hiring, product strategy, customer development, fundraising, coaching, therapy, etc.? In the meantime, we’d love to hear how you decided on your investor syndicate? How do you decide who you should have in your cap table? What is important to you? How accessible is the investor?

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s) - Steve Blank , July 15, 2010 If you take funding from a venture capital firm or angel investor and want to build a large, enduring company (rather than sell it to the highest bidder), this isn’t the decade to do it. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round.