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Free Publicity for your Startup

 
As a startup, the ability to create publicity for your business at minimal to no cost can be invaluable. We've listed below some of the more creative ways that we've seen our portfolio companies and others attract the media.
 

MAJOR CONFERENCES SEEKING STARTUPS TO FEATURE (AT NO CHARGE)
 
Conferences are a great venue for educating influencers Read More...

Posted By David Teten Comments Off
On September 9th, 2011

Our Lending Library Principles, and overdelivering on an assignment

 
 

  One of the first steps I took when I joined ff Venture Capital was to launch a lending library (the original social media). It's a very cheap employee benefit and more important, a way to promote a culture of both learning and knowledge-sharing. I think every company would benefit by having a small lending Read More...

Posted By David Teten Comments Off
On August 5th, 2011

Ten Tips for Entrepreneurs when Working with Lawyers

 

 
David A. Boillot, Susan Klein, and Ed Reitler of Reitler Kailas & Rosenblatt did a great job representing me in finalizing the terms of my joining ff Venture Capital. However, I definitely have to admit that executing the agreements took much longer than I had hoped. Although fortunately my cost was capped, it still cost Read More...

Posted By David Teten Comments Off
On July 20th, 2011

7/28: How to Recruit Rockstar Team Members to Your Startup

On Thursday, July 28th, DreamIt Ventures New York will be hosting a presentation by me on "How to Recruit Rockstar Team Members to Your Startup". I'd really appreciate your feedback on my draft slide deck, below.

"David Teten will share his insights on the issues and challenges of building a great team in an early-stage Read More...

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On July 12th, 2011

Update on our study on deal sourcing

 
It's been very exciting to see such a strong response to our recent research study on "Best Practices in Private Equity and Venture Capital Deal Origination", published in the Winter 2010 Journal of Private Equity. 
 
To our knowledge, this is the first systematic study on this topic; we have not found any other in-depth research Read More...

Posted By David Teten Comments Off
On May 12th, 2011
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