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Why it’s Critical That you Reference Check Your VC

Both Sides of the Table

I often tell people that raising venture capital is more difficult than getting married. Not so in venture capital. How do you then reference check your VC to be sure that you’ve chosen a good firm and partner? But they’re the ones you can find out with reference checks.

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Changes in the Venture Capital Funding Environment

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The other major trend of 2012–2015 was the entrance of “non VCs” into late-stages of venture capital , which mostly consisted of hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors, sovereign wealth funds and even LPs doing direct deals. The fact that I still see it referred to in pitch decks is farcical. Late-Stage VCs Pay Up.

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Nigeria’s Decagon raises millions to finance and train software engineers

TechCrunch

million seed round and a student loan financing facility of $25 million from Nigerian financial institution Sterling Bank. The dire need for tech talent in Nigeria has become more evident these days, where startups are raising venture capital at a ridiculous pace. Today, Decagon is announcing its $1.5 also took part.

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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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I’ve watched VCs help with valuation support (spreadsheets, comps) on next round financing, participate in M&A meetings, interview senior job candidates – even help terminate tricky senior hires. And so is venture capital. The best way – of course – is to reference check. Commitment.

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What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?

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Because the videos show exactly what life would be like if a young Elon Musk came to pitch VCs today and said I want to transform P2P finance, get people driving electric cars and send a man to mars in our lifetime. The reference to Andy Dunn and me is responding to this post I wrote (in response to Andy’s earlier post).

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What is the Best CRM and Marketing Tech Platform for a New Private Equity/Venture Capital Fund?

David Teten VC

One of the first decisions we had to make in setting up our new VC fund, Versatile Venture Capital , was our CRM and marketing technology infrastructure. . Linkedin : Versatile Venture Capital / David Teten personal. It’s also helpful for identifying people with whom we can do reference checking.

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Startups and VCs Should Avoid “Pier” Funding

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Often when startups who have raised venture capital need another round of financing they will turn to their existing investors to give them money before raising from outsiders. a loan) that is later converted to equity at the time of the next financing. But I used to jokingly refer to bridge loans as “pier&# loans.

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