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

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– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. 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.

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28 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

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We also wanted to avoid any potential brand confusion with words such as New York City, Metro, Gotham, etc. Additionally, not limiting ourselves to a New York-linked name allowed us the eventual freedom to produce in other cities without having to qualify ourselves. understand what we were going for.

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Behind Every Great Product

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In addition to all the new features, the team had another very large objective. Their code base had diverged and it was extremely slow and costly for Microsoft to be implementing Word separately for each platform: Windows, DOS and Mac. Kate is now a product leader at Shutterstock in New York City. In 1993, Word 6.0

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5 Hot Ecommerce Trends to Watch

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Jobs Events Try Our New Social News App Welcome to Mashable! The danger with this type of marketing is the penchant for users to become annoyed due to the “creepy” nature of ads following them around. More Stories in Apps & Software. The server is slow, the templates are ugly, and it is impossible to write custom code.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

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The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. With more than 40 million monthly pageviews, Mashable is the most prolific news site reporting breaking web news, providing analysis of trends, reviewing new Web sites and services, and offering social media resources and guides.

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How To Close The Books on Your Startup

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The end of one venture often signals the start of something new and the beginning of the next exciting journey. This is particularly true in the fast-paced high-tech and software world, where only a small percentage of startups mature. Latest Startups News. Latest Media News. Today in Mobile. Dev & Design Highlights.

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How to Plan Your Social Integration Strategy

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