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

David Teten

Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. Organize events in your vertical.

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Realistic Entrprenuers Guide to Venture Capital

SoCal CTO

Product Manager Entrepreneur Mark Geller SEO for Startups Startup Version 1.0 Kevin Federline Search Engine Realistic Entrprenuer's Guide to Venture Capital Time Rich, Time Poor and Apple F2F Still Matters 8 Ways the Internet has Changed Software Marketing. Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouh.

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This Week in Venture Capital with Jason Calacanis

Both Sides of the Table

I was on This Week in Venture Capital today with Jason Calacanis talking about the big VC deals at the moment and talking about the VC industry. Q&A delivers amazing SEO juice that I’ve seen at several recent companies so I get that. Gdgt (l ed by Spark, True Ventures ) – Love the idea.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. We found most unfunded or under-funded startups unable to compete with larger budgets, backed by some of the most prolific venture capitalists. Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups.

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Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name?

David Teten

However, they remain key to your email identity, and fundamental to your marketing and even capital-raising. The ff Venture Capital portfolio is evidence of how much we believe this, e.g., our companies Alerts.com , Gobbler.com , Identified.com , Patents.com , Phone.com , and Plated.com. The name needs to match the business.

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Why We Shouldn’t Be In Love With Startups 

ReadWriteStart

All while the majority of the economy is driven greatly by boring industries often owned by private equity, not venture capital. We found most unfunded or under-funded startups unable to compete with larger budgets, backed by some of the most prolific venture capitalists.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

They don't know you because your team/family barely has a website--and even if it does, it's not SEO optimized. Unlike a venture capital firm that states its criteria on its website and has forms, e-mail addresses, etc to encourage outreach, your site does a lot better job of saying "Go away!".

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