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

David Teten

For example, I suggest it doesn’t make a lot of sense to hire a full-time team member who’s an SEO consultant. A SEO consultant is going to provide the same quality of service whether she is working for the investor, or directly for a company. A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation .

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Angel Investing Skill 2 – Domain Knowledge

Both Sides of the Table

Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. But the problem is that most deals – even really promising ones – fail. Remember that you’ll be investing against people who have worked on the Google algorithm and REALLY know what drives SEO. Access to Deal Flow. Domain Knowledge.

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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

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Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. Plus, maybe they’ve got some mega Facebook deal in the works? And SEO juice of sites with no value makes searching for real product feedback suck. My blog and what it’s done for my deal flow. -

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Crowd Sourced Funding Exchanges - An Emerging Trend

ReadWriteStart

Michael has almost 90,000 free users and is looking for a way to be in the deal flow of people looking for business plan software. That customer is typically searching on Google, and Michael needs to orchestrate his SEO, blogging, and guerrilla p.r. efforts to get them.

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How to Flip Your Startup in 5 Steps

ReadWriteStart

Flips, on the other hand, thrive on trends: what better time for an entrepreneur to create a startup than when valuations are up, investments are quick, exits are plenty and deal flow is increase? Consider it a type of SEO investment! These are the times when there is more demand for startups. 1: Find a Simple Idea.

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