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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

Build the firm as much as possible before you solicit limited partners. . Your materials should ideally meet the expectations of the Institutional Limited Partners Association, even if you’re not targeting institutions. Note that limited partners view formatting as a proxy for professionalism.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 20: Nayeem Hussain and Will Zell

Steve Blank

Funding challenges and other issues founders face in the early days of starting up were the focus of interviews with the latest guests on Entrepreneurs are Everywhere , my radio show on SiriusXM Channel 111 (airing weekly Thursdays at 1 pm Pacific, 4 pm Eastern). Tune in Thursday at 1 pm PT, 4 pm ET on Sirius XM Channel 111.

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Founder and CEO Revolutionize the Breastfeeding World Through her Company

Hearpreneur

Her responsibilities included: strategic counseling, business modeling and deal negotiation for the various for medical startups in the portfolio and is a limited partner at NGT3 Medical Accelerator in Israel. Sablotsky continued her professional career as Vice-President of Portfolio Development for Jacobs Investments, LLC.

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When Bad News Is Actually Good News

Babbling VC

For those of you not in the know, they are one of the largest limited partners ( LP's : investors in venture capital funds) in Europe and are basically in almost all the funds throughout the market. I believe this will very much remain a necessary channel for capital into funds in the future. .

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

A tool like Quuu identifies relevant, shareable content to keep your social media channels active. . A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

The most frequently used channel to research people is unsurprisingly Linkedin , followed by Twitter. As limited partners, we at Blue Future Partners are keen to understand on an ongoing basis how each underlying company in our portfolio funds is performing. How do funds use tech to monitor and report investments?