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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

Our new Harvard Business Review article: Time for Investors to Get Social

I'm excited to report that we've started to release the results from our first-ever study on best practices in private equity and venture capital deal origination.  My coauthor Chris Farmer (formerly Vice President, Bessemer Venture Partners) and I published a summary in the current issue of Harvard Business Review. 
 
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On May 24th, 2010

Venture Capitalists and the Upside-Down Pyramid

In response to my post on VC's increasing use of operationally focused team members, HBS professor Noam Wasserman sent me an excerpt of his dissertation on 'The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur: The Characteristics and Dynamics Within VC Firms'. A key point he makes in this paper is that, "Most strikingly, a large percentage of the Read More...

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On April 24th, 2010
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