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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

It also attracted some big names from the Bay Area. This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. Team Pip.io

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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How To Negotiate with Vendors, Partners And Employees

YoungUpstarts

I also explained that we weren’t concerned with what each itemized item cost – but we needed to make sure that in the aggregate, we didn’t exceed our budget. Don’t just give up those points outright before you begin – but do take note of them and concede them as you negotiate. Confirm points of agreement and disagreement.

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The Legal Side of Entrepreneurship

YoungUpstarts

by John Vrionis, partner at Lightspeed Venture Partners. Law firms that focus on emerging technology companies understand their legal issues from multiple perspectives and offer excellent advice. Debt also has a due date and interest rate to negotiate. Lightspeed is in the business of encouraging entrepreneurship.

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

David Teten

Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. aggregates resources from all the VCs. Relationships with Venture Partners, Entrepreneurs in Residence , and other non-salaried personnel who can help your companies. AskAnything.VC

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The Great Retail Reinvention: How the Internet Is Reshaping the Way We Buy Clothing

View from Seed

We are currently seeing the most rapid collapse of retail since the Great Recession, due to the internet changing consumer demand and purchasing patterns. There will be a huge opportunity for brands that really nail this integration, and enabling technologies or services that will support this shift. Personalization & Discovery.

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The 4 Types of Stories Founders Need to Tell When Fundraising

View from Seed

Investors and smart hires will always do appropriate diligence before investing money and time, but they won’t bother doing that unless they are excited about your story. In that moment, language and naming “clicked” for Helen. Are you aggregating and leveraging a competitive dataset none will be able to reproduce?

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