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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. Kayak Software Corporation. 5) High Productivity: Kayak had 148 employees at the end of 2010. Founding Date: 2004. as of 12/31/09).

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. The reason is that employees are investors too—oftheir time—and they want just as much to be able to cash out.