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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. I recommend building a strong internal tech stack, to handle the deluge of requests for help you’ll get from companies as you scale.

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What is a Social Enterprise?

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According to the Harvard Business Review, in most U.S. InStove contributes both the technology for efficient stoves, and the means to create sustainable jobs. Here in the U.S. B corp, or Benefit Corporation. Outdoor wear company Patagonia is a B corp. with many more states pending legislation. What about the rest of us?

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How to Choose a Business Location

Up and Running

In this article, we’re going to review the things you need to keep in mind when choosing a location; offer you advice on where to look for a business location; and also provide you with a few resources we think you’ll find useful as you work through the process. In the tech world, access to talent is of paramount importance.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Out of the Crisis #11: Jeremy Howard on the power of masks, health policy, and data science in medicine

Startup Lessons Learned

fast.ai , the company he co-founded with Rachel Thomas and Sylvain Gugger is working to "radically democratize" deep learning by making it accessible to people beyond the tech world through courses, software and other methods. So my focus has been on taking our research software and courses to the next level.