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

David Teten

Sophisticated VC and private equity funds have a wide array of options for leveraging outside operating executives. – Create a franchise and license access to it , e.g., the Draper Venture Network. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities.

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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. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly. 2) Raise capital.

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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

This could be a proportion of the company’s equity or investment; in other instances, it could be a portion of its later-stage profits. Seed venture capital firms can make more significant follow-on investments to keep or increase their equity stake in the company. The earliest investors in a business are usually syndication.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

It might appear that origination is becoming much easier because of new tools like AngelList and the SEC moving toward adoption of rules that will allow equity based crowdfunding. Most investors rely on their network of colleagues and service providers to source investments. Just do a search online and the VC’s job is done!

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns). 2) Researching a topic.

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And even other strong, but perhaps not standout, companies like Active Network and Demand Media completed their own offerings. But if you read the whole article you glean more insight… the entire public equity markets have sunk in the last 3-4 months. Bankers licked their chops. VCs dreamt of liquidty. Life was good.

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