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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. 5) Manage deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. 5) Manage deal flow.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 32: Evangelos Simoudis and Ashok Srivastava

Steve Blank

Evangelos Simoudis’ is the founder and managing director of Synapse Partners. His investing career started 15 years ago at Apax Partners and continued with Trident Capital. You need to be able to understand how to take advantage of the market you’re operating in, including how to take advantage of corporations. .

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . It can help develop applications for the startup’s technology in its early days.

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

David Teten

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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How NextView Thinks About Pre-Seed Rounds as VC Investors

View from Seed

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. My partner David wrote yesterday in greater detail about some of our learnings from co-habitating with pre-seed companies. You can find that here.

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How We Think About Pre-Seeds at NextView

Rob Go

On Wednesday, my partner David wrote about how we’ve been using our office space (and network and other resources) to support pre-seed companies. My partner David wrote yesterday in greater detail about some of our learnings from co-habitating with pre-seed companies. You can find that here.