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Why You Should Think Twice Before You Send That Intro Email

Both Sides of the Table

I’m talking in aggregate. Usually it’s on behalf of a portfolio company. My belief – unless you know the VC really well (you’re a portfolio company of theirs, for example) I’d always ask for permission first. Lately I’ve seen some friends and colleagues go nuts with intros. I do this often.

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

David Teten

I’ve recently advised a number of emerging private equity and VC funds who are wrestling with the question: What are the highest impact steps they can take to support their portfolio companies? . Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

They matter in the sense that GPs only earn carried interest if they generate absolute gains on their portfolio, regardless of how their fund does relative to other VC funds or even other asset classes. Even if you’re top decile for your vintage year (e.g. 3.0x+ cash on cash) is profitable.

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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. We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees.

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The Crucial Questions Every Project Manager Needs To Ask – And The KPIs To Answer Them

YoungUpstarts

A report that can be filtered and aggregated by data points like team, portfolio, or customer, also acts as a KPI that allows teams to identify which projects need attention, which are profiting, and which are facing losses.

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I’m joining ff Venture Capital

David Teten

Although any given early-stage company is quite risky, when aggregated across a large portfolio, returns are very attractive. As part of my new role, my mandate is to continue the institutionalization of the Firm, accelerate the growth of our portfolio companies, and look for great entrepreneurs and companies with which we can work.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. How many social networks, picture sharing sites, new aggregators or blogs can we really spend time on? You Manage What you Measure. Sure, but will they still be using it in a year? In 6 months? In 3 months?

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