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How to Win Consulting, Board, and Deal Roles with Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

You can work as a consultant, an interim executive, a board member, a deal executive partnering to buy a company, an executive in residence, or as an entrepreneur in residence. . Thank you to my co-author for this essay, Paulina Symala, a Consultant at Oliver Wyman and a past intern of Versatile VC. Expert Networks.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

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But my take: Gaikai had superior technology & a superior business strategy. He talked in the video about how he finds it helpful in companies to think about practical theory and frameworks for thinking about company strategy. 15:00 Question from the chat: Are VCs moving to be consulting companies in some parts?

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . Were their consultants? In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . Were their consultants? In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. They hired a consultant to help them with the review.

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Embrace Losing

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In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors.

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Don’t Roll out the Red Carpet on the Way out the Door

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This is part of my Startup Advice series. Before I started my first company in 1999 I worked for Andersen Consulting (now Accenture). We had a strategy of hiring people really young because we couldn’t afford to hire too many senior people. Tags: Entrepreneur Advice Startup Advice.