June, 2005

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LP Conference

BeyondVC

I am not sure how many entrepreneurs understand the structure of venture capital funds but the bottom line is that while VCs manage funds, we ultimately report to our investors or Limited Partners (LPs). It is not our money, and we have a fiduciary responsibility to manage it properly and generate the returns our LPs expect of us. And like you, we have to go out and raise capital every 3-5 years for a new fund and similar to entrepreneurs we need to network with the right people, have the right

LP 78
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Pro-Broadband Muni Issue Goes National

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The laws of supply and demand for VCs and IT Buyers

BeyondVC

There is a supply and demand equation for every startup’s product or service. In early stage companies, I sometimes see too much from the supply side and not enough from the demand part of the equation. In other words, inventing great products that no one wants to buy is a waste of time, money and effort. While there are not nearly the amount of startups on the East Coast as in Silicon Valley, being in New York I do have tremendous access to Fortune 500 companies.

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LP Conference

BeyondVC

I am not sure how many entrepreneurs understand the structure of venture capital funds but the bottom line is that while VCs manage funds, we ultimately report to our investors or Limited Partners (LPs). It is not our money, and we have a fiduciary responsibility to manage it properly and generate the returns our LPs expect of us. And like you, we have to go out and raise capital every 3-5 years for a new fund and similar to entrepreneurs we need to network with the right people, have the right

LP 60
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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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The laws of supply and demand for VCs and IT Buyers

BeyondVC

There is a supply and demand equation for every startup’s product or service. In early stage companies, I sometimes see too much from the supply side and not enough from the demand part of the equation. In other words, inventing great products that no one wants to buy is a waste of time, money and effort. While there are not nearly the amount of startups on the East Coast as in Silicon Valley, being in New York I do have tremendous access to Fortune 500 companies.

Demand 60
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Texas Sets Key Precedent for Other States in Refusing to Ban Municipal Wireless

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