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

David Teten

The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Go public. Previously posted on PEHub.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Our categorization is not a technical one. Additionally, Flexible VC can accommodate all types of companies, not just asset-lite, tech-enabled companies.”. Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. Technology-centric businesses. Minimum requirements.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

As a two person team Arlo and AJ built out the whole site and the back-end technology — and built it to scale — at one point they did a A/B test on Zappos and were easily able to handle all the traffic coming to the Zappos test site while being able to show results from the enormous Zappos inventory.

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Behind Every Great Product

SVPG

I’ve had the opportunity to work with many impressive teams and product managers from a broad range of leading tech companies, and this has helped me to get a better sense of the what is essential to the role, and to success. Those were the technology-powered innovations that enabled the new, much more desirable business model.

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What Google's Penguin Algorithm Means for Your Business

mashable.com

It’s been saying this all along, but people only seem to take notice when their analytics look something like this: While Penguin was technically an algorithm update, it wasn’t really a change in how Google factors ranking; it was just the official word that Google is taking action against people trying to game the search system. Television.

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Account-Based Marketing Software & Tools

ConversionXL

User reviews on G2 Crowd reinforce that perception: DemandBase is on the pricier side, it also doesn’t do a very good job with targeting smaller businesses (really only good for mid-to-large size businesses). Like other ABM tools, Jabmo relies, in part, on IP addresses to determine the source of traffic. Image source ).

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

Both Sides of the Table

We were trying to optimize around a few criteria: price, size of round, number of syndicate partners and, of course, terms. We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Push hard to set up the technical reviews, the due diligence meetings, the reference calls – whatever.