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

David Teten

Real Ventures , an early-stage, Canadian-based fund, runs a two-day Founder Camp every six months. A VC can build out relations with the innovation groups at the Global 2,000, which turn into lead-gen for portfolio companies selling to the Global 2,000. Customer Development.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

And the loosening of federal monetary policies, particularly in the US, has pushed more dollars into the venture ecosystems at every stage of financing. We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. That used to be called A-round investing. That used to be called A-round investing.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We also have a better known brand than some of our early stage companies, so we can leverage that to help source talent. C ustomer Development – We have relationships with hundreds of large global corporations. We have insight on the competencies of our companies’ personnel, and who is hiring or shrinking.

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Venture Summit: Connecting with Silicon Valley Venture Capital

The Startup Magazine

Yash Hemaraj | Benhamou Global Ventures. In its effort to advocate and be a resource for the startup community, The Startup Magazine is sponsoring this leading venture capital gathering in the heart of tech hub Silicon Valley. Rashmi Gopinath | Microsoft Ventures. Rich Grant | Touchdown Ventures. Kanu Gulati | Khosla Ventures.

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How to Decide

Reid Hoffman

Many times, a global view of data is sufficient, like the virality curve at PayPal. I don’t believe that having an investment banker or industry analyst call a 100-person sample tells you much about the market. But other times, you need the ability to make micro as well as macro decisions.

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Helping Entrepreneurs Get To Where They Want To Go Faster

Duct Tape Marketing

Carolyn Rodz (03:04): So I started out actually my career as an investment banker and jumped into entrepreneurship quite blindly. I then met Elizabeth along that journey and she was coming from this background with the working for the United Nations, leading their global entrepreneur council. What's your history like?

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Market Truths

thebarefootvc

After a tumultuous week in global markets, today the US stock market ended higher on the session. As a former investment banker who followed the markets closely once upon a time (especially when I was in the midst of public market M&A transactions), I now have the luxury of watching from an arm’s length.