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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

 
I hope you can join us Thursday night at a joint event of the Harvard Business School Angels of New York and the Harvard Business School Club of New York, on "How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value".  I'll briefly discuss my research study on this topic, and then we'll have Read More...

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On January 10th, 2012

Template Startup Financial Model

 
(This is the second of three blog posts on financial models for startups.  Yesterday I wrote about best practices in spreadsheet design.)
 
I couldn’t find a good template financial model online, so I decided to create one.
 
We started with a sanitized version of a financial model I had developed for startups I have run.  I gave Read More...

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On November 10th, 2011

Corporations speak: How I think about buying your startup

I’m kicking off a new series on this blog: detailed notes on events of interest to the investing and technology community.  Conrad Wadowski, Business Development at Xamtech, is initiating  with his detailed notes on the inaugural panel of the new Enterprise Tech Meetup.  Livestream video here.
 
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In startup land, consumer internet startups have gotten quite a Read More...

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On October 3rd, 2011

CRM Systems and Private Equity Deal Sourcing

 

 
 
Preqin and LexisNexis Enterprise Solutions just released a report on “CRM Systems and Private Equity Deal Sourcing”, based on a survey of 63 private equity funds.
 
They report that 84% of respondents claim to source over 20% of their opportunities through proprietary deal flow. Based on our research, I think that these respondents are taking Read More...

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On September 22nd, 2011

For students interested in venture capital

 
If you are a student anywhere in the world seriously interested in venture capital, angel investing, and/or entrepreneurship, please consider working with us on your research papers.  We're obsessed with research and data, and have a number of research topics we'd love to dig into with the right student partners.
 
If you are highly Read More...

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On September 6th, 2011
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