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Dan Lok Explains Venture Capital Funding and How to Secure It

The Startup Magazine

Venture capital is a type of private equity. It is a type of financing that investors can provide to startups and small businesses which are believed to have the potential for success in the long term. Regular private equity investors fund larger and more established companies. Due Diligence and Closing the Deal.

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

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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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. 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.

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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

There were startups and a software industry but barely. SEEING THINGS FROM THE VC SIDE OF THE TABLE While I was a VC in 2007 & 2008 those were dead years because the market again evaporated due the the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). There was no money train. It was 1991. We still loved every moment. It’s just not me.

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5 Automation Trends That Are Impacting The FinTech Industry Right Now

YoungUpstarts

The move to specific tools and software programs increases speed and accuracy of processes. This used to be one of the least automated components, but now software like Workday and 15Five are building platforms to assist workflow with related systems that support employee management. by Chris Grey, co-founder and COO of CapLinked.

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5 Mistakes New College Grads Make As They Enter Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

They were promised that their hard work and diligence will earn them an attractive job and a high chance of success. by Christopher Grey, co-founder and COO of CapLinked. It’s that time of year again. Thousands of qualified college graduates are getting set to enter the workforce.

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How to Fund Your Startup Without Losing Control

Up and Running

When you accept outside money, particularly a private equity (PE) investment, however, that changes. In this article, I’ll provide some personal stories of how investors have navigated the balance between raising private equity capital and not losing control of their startup.