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[Interview] Patrick Mackaronis, Director Of Business Development At Brabble

YoungUpstarts

As the years went on, Pat Mackaronis continued to grow his network and partners in a second restaurant as well as a nightclub, he also invested in several small businesses and worked with teams to grow their projections. You need to have a vision,” he advises others similarly on the entrepreneurial path.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. For the last couple of years, I’ve been investing in startups as a partner at Mucker, while spending a lot of time in the Valley working with potential co-investors and partners.

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How to Write a Business Plan for Raising Venture Capital

Growthink Blog

how it will work, the financial terms, the types of customer leads expected from each partner, etc.). About Growthink Since 1999, Growthink's professional business plan writers and investment bankers have assisted more than 2,000 clients in launching and growing their businesses, and raising more than $1 billion in growth financing.

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

David Teten

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? Dan Kozikowski, Partner and Head of Platform, First Mark Capital , said to me, “Firms should match services to the stage-specific needs of companies. All content is developed and delivered by the Real Ventures partners.

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Do VC’s with “Operating Experience” Add More Value

Rob Go

Nick Beim (Gilt, The Ladders, JBoss) was a consultant and investment banker. The simplest example is negotiating future financings (assuming you and your investor are relatively well aligned). Fred Wilson (Twitter, Zynga, Foursquare) has been a VC for almost his entire career. Go figure.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. Let’s say you became a partner in a VC fund in 1995 and started investing heavily in 1997-99. Holy sh*t!!!

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

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .