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Seed Stage Funding 101: What it Is & How it Works

The Startup Magazine

Seed venture capital firms can make more significant follow-on investments to keep or increase their equity stake in the company. The management of a company, its established track record, the size of the market, and the level of risk all play a role in determining a company’s valuation.

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

David Teten

Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. But, we normally have a clear ceiling on how high we can grow AUM, before hitting practical limits to deploying capital within the traditional VC model. . – Hire more non-Partner staff.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). Continental Capital*. $ 250,000. .

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . 3) Raise capital.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow. But we’re doing it slowly.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. Just as with any company, the most important issue is the team; see “ How to Negotiate a Partner Role at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Firm “ . 3) Raise capital.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

She had so much insight to share that we broke the interview into two parts, 1) Corporate Venture Capital and more broadly, 2) How the Fortune 500 Can Buy, Invest and Partner with the Innovation Economy (coming soon). . Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform.