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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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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Later stage investors are using private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Exit Investments”. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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14 Points To Consider When Structuring A Deal

YoungUpstarts

As senior partner in Libreum Capital Management , JP James helps set the strategic direction in the diverse set of financial companies including alternative investments, private equity, risk management, investment banking focused on multiple verticals including medical, wellness, fracking tech, entertainment tech, and others.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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Customer Development Fireside Chat

Steve Blank

luck… and as one of Steve Blank’s posts today mentioned, you can’t test hypotheses from within your building.

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

AI is exploding not only in research and infrastructure (which go wide) but also in the application of AI to vertical problems (which go deep and depend more than ever on expertise). Just as classic computers were applied to a broad set of business, science and military applications, AI is doing the same.

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Looking Back On Tech, Startups, And VC In 2018

Haystack

Public investors, cross-over investors, and even traditional private equity firms have taken notice, further blurring the lines of what constitutes true venture capital. Hundreds of new micro funds somehow keep getting into the market. More and more angels will be minted as the 2019 IPO class emerges. 2/ The Scooter Phenomenon.