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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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Structured customer dev – not to be missed.

The Equity Kicker

In our experience, structured customer development work is right up there amongst the most valuable things a founder can do in the early days of their startup. Once you have an idea that feels strong, it’s imperative to speak with customers about it. But good customer development is tough to do.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Another great way to test your idea is to create a minimum viable product, or MVP. This is the simplest version of your product minus the frills and frosting. It’s a particularly popular strategy in the world of product development and is used to quickly and quantitatively test a product or a product feature.

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Common Growth Hacking Myths (and How Growth Actually Works)

ConversionXL

Startups don’t have access to the same resources or brand equity. September 2013 – Ryan Holiday publishes Growth Hacker Marketing and urges people to build growth into the product itself so that it’s a self-sustaining, scalable growth machine. Conducted Customer Development. Established product-market fit.

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What is the perfect startup team?

www.quora.com

are just emerging for business people (customer development, business model generation,). He correctly identifies the three disciplines that have to be represented in a balanced and collaborative manner: developer, designer, distributer. The original name being Abraraccourcix. 90% of entrepreneurs can not raise capital.