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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. Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. .

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. 5) Due diligence. 4) Manage deal flow.

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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

at exit due to dilution. But the general idea is that for software driven businesses, traction can create unpredictable upside that is hard to account for but should not be ignored. I can tell a story looking backwards why our LP base was carefully constructed. But over time, that fund may invest another $2M in later rounds.

IRR 205
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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

at exit due to dilution. But the general idea is that for software driven businesses, traction can create unpredictable upside that is hard to account for but should not be ignored. I can tell a story looking backwards why our LP base was carefully constructed. But over time, that fund may invest another $2M in later rounds.

IRR 156
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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

He said they’d consider any “special situations” funds I was doing—at which point I realized that he had never even looked at the deck and had zero intentions of doing any real diligence. I took my last LP meeting the first week of March and clearly, I didn’t close anyone that I had met with at that time. He seemed paranoid.

LP 136
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10 Reflections After 10 Years of NextView

View from Seed

at exit due to dilution. But the general idea is that for software driven businesses, traction can create unpredictable upside that is hard to account for but should not be ignored. I can tell a story looking backwards why our LP base was carefully constructed. But over time, that fund may invest another $2M in later rounds.

IRR 136
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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and.