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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

As one of the lead engineers at ff Venture Capital , I spend most of my day building custom software solutions that enhance our firm’s process–tools that range from portfolio investment management to co-investor and cap table tracking and more. We posted on our site a more in-depth overview of ff’s Tech Platform.

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

David Teten

Yohei Nakajima, Founder of Untapped.vc , said, “Before pitching LPs and building my firm, I talked with over 50 people I knew to get feedback.” . For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. An LP’s View On Challenges And Alternatives.

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Emerging Manager Mode: The VC’s version of “Do things that don’t scale”

VC Cafe

Paul Graham’s recent essay, Founder Mode , describes the mindset that founders need to adopt to navigate the early stages of building a startup, and how they’re different than ‘manager mode’ which is traditional management/corporate best practices.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

(co-written with Jamie Finney, Founding Partner at Greater Colorado Venture Fund. From RBI, Flexible VCs borrow the ability to reap meaningful returns without demanding founders build for an exit. By tying payments to actual revenues, founders and investors remain aligned around the company’s real-time performance, good or bad.

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

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies.

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. He co-founded the first angel investor group in the Bitcoin space, BitAngels , in 2013, which grew to over 500 members globally. They helped us establish 2 GP entities, 2 LP entities, and 1 Cayman entity (for international investors) in ~2 months.

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In 15 Years From Now Half of US Universities May Be in Bankruptcy. My Surprise Discussion with @ClayChristensen

Both Sides of the Table

In a discussion I had with Fred Wilson at the Invesco LP meeting Fred said the same about the influence of Clayton. He believes that one of the financial metrics taught at business schools and reinforced by Wall Street has accelerated offshoring of industries. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed).