Archive for August, 2010

Final draft available: private equity and venture capital funds' best practices in originating new investments

 

We're in the last lap of editing our research study on best practices of private equity and venture capital investors in originating new investments, which has a particular focus on use of social media.  We plan to publish this in a major private equity journal.
 
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On August 16th, 2010

Founder Institute New York: Early Admissions deadline Aug. 15/Final deadline Aug. 29

 
We have another Founder Institute semester spooling up in NYC, and the early admissions deadline is August 15th, with final admissions on August 29th.  Our host will be local entrepreneur Gabe Zichermann, and the applicant pool so far looks very strong. 
 
If you are an early-stage entrepreneur, this is a very powerful way to Read More...

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On August 13th, 2010

Profitably closes $300K seed round

I'm glad to report some great news from Profitably, a firm I'm advising and Founder Institute graduate.  Profitably provides analytics to increase revenues and lower costs for small-medium businesses.
 
About 2 months ago, they won the North Bridge Venture Partners venture competition, which included a $50k convertible note. The firm opened that note up to private Read More...

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On August 4th, 2010

Goodbye Expert Networks, Hello Private Equity: Coverage from Integrity Research

   Integrity Research wrote a nice blog post about the new startup I'm working on: 
 
"As more research providers emerge to analyze the public markets (there are now over 3,500 research providers in our database), one gap in the market are research providers for the private markets.  David Teten, founder of the expert network Evalueserve Read More...

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On August 4th, 2010