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

David Teten

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. AskAnything.VC Advantages.

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Meet Our Newest Portfolio Company, Airbnb

Ben's Blog

Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia met at the Rhode Island School of Design and became roommates in San Francisco in 2007. Platforms upon which their community of users continually expands into new verticals. Andreessen Horowitz led Airbnb’s latest financing round, investing $60 million of the total raise of $112 million.