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

David Teten

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. Disclosure: I have a financial interest in Foundersuite , a ff Venture Capital portfolio company. Previously posted on PEHub.

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Yahoo! vs Facebook: Lame Lawsuit, Good Timing ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

CEO Scott Thompson alluded to their plan a couple weeks ago but the IP lawsuit itself was only official late afternoon yesterday (and now public). ’s claims of IP infringement or offer a litigator’s perspective of Yahoo! Thompson reportedly dealt with this IP lawsuit personally along with Yahoo!’s link] Harry.

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

Both Sides of the Table

I see emails from angel syndicates all the time for companies I hadn’t even given 2 seconds thought about investing and I get full info, pitch deck and info about the round size and timing. But let me tell you for free. Every great investor knows this.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. I helped introduce the company to various angels and lead the effort to form a syndicate for their fund-raising round.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Flexible VC offers you this. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Most Flexible VCs lead rounds and often take 100% of the round to mitigate this risk.

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Startup Business Model Considerations

SoCal CTO

Customer Acquisition – social media, SEO, SEM, etc Economies of Scale – not as big a barrier in web world Investment – little to none required to get started Pricing – free or freemium makes trial simple Distribution – syndication and APIs make partnering easier IP – in general the battle has been over users and less on IP many more (please comment (..)

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Account-Based Marketing Software & Tools

ConversionXL

For example, if multiple users from a company (usually identified by IP) are reading about how to reduce their corporate real estate footprint, it may flag that company as a strong prospect for a seller of space management technology. Like other ABM tools, Jabmo relies, in part, on IP addresses to determine the source of traffic.