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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

Both Sides of the Table

Helping companies get to next financing round successfully: I was just beginning this phase in Sept 2010 and said so. I’ve now been involved with many other successful foll0w-on financings. Getting Exits / Driving LP Returns: This was always the knock on me. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. Since then?

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Applied Venture and the inexorable rise of value-add VC

The Equity Kicker

The other most common focus areas for platform teams are to employ talent and PR/marketing experts who give advice to portfolio companies on strategy in these areas and have relationships and discounts with pre-vetted agencies who can deliver the work. The GP-LP structure used by most funds is a brake on innovation here too.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

Both Sides of the Table

These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. So make sure you have a solid PR strategy. Understanding PR & Crisis Management. How to Work with PR Firms. Make sure good PR is underpinning your fund raising efforts.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

I believe some VCs have entered the early-stage market as simply an option on future financing rounds. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. As I’ve started to get to know the other side of the VC industry lately (the people who invest in VC funds or “LPs&# ) one thing has occurred to me.

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To Follow On or Not to Follow On

This is going to be BIG.

I know, because those people all used to pitch me as an institutional LP back in the day. That wasn't a bubble bursting issue--that was a poor financing strategy issue of people getting caught with their pants down, hands in the cookie jar, and all the metaphors you can think of at once.