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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

As I’ve worked to build out HOF Capital ’s portfolio acceleration platform , the #1 question I think about is: how do we scalably support our companies? Many VCs offer (or strive to offer) a bundle of levers and support structures to help their portfolio companies. For example, consider public relations.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walker

I’m an Ashley Mayer superfan so beyond the affinity, have been fortunate enough to also bring her into Homebrew as an advisor to our portfolio companies, and invest in Coalition , a venture firm she founded along with three other amazing female operators. We had overlapping circles and then became friends. They gave me a shot.

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Robust Experimentation and Testing | Reasons for Failure!

Occam's Razor

Public relations. You and I promised a lot to get this program going, so many employees, leaders, egos, teams were involved, it will be a big let-down. The individual is ignoring varied influence across product portfolios, seasonality, diminishing returns, changes in the audience, and a million other things.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

It will change when we create more education, show the success stories, the exits, the financial returns, when we have role models of major funds who say ‘yes, we make these investments and our portfolio is actually successful and these companies are even more resilient and successful than others, particularly in times of challenges like COVID-19.”.