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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. . As a next step, we recommend that you register at the major expert network websites, as well as LinkedIn and job boards, if you haven’t already.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Moving into online education courses for 8 th -12 th grade in Summer 2010.

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How I Promise You One of the Most Meaningful Days of Your Life

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Defy Ventures is a program that aims to educate people in prison to become better humans upon graduation. Defy Ventures runs business plan competitions and has people like us who attend and give business advice and feedback. Catherine (Cat) Hoke founded the program in 2010 and launched the business plan competition in 2012.

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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

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This post has some basic advice on how to plan your raise before you hit the road. If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. This can be somebody on 15 boards or maybe the managing partner. Super busy partner.

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The Search: Finding Your Angel Collaboration Platform

Angel Capital Association

I'm joined here today by Mr. Jeffrey Lang, chairman of the board for the Desert Angels. A great place to be able to start today is maybe tell our listeners a little bit more about yourself; a little bit more about your personal journey that led you to becoming chairman of the board, and of course, why you decided to become an angel investor.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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We had email, instant messaging, group calendars, discussion boards, etc. But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. I know in 2010 this doesn’t seem obvious to everybody but it’s my judgment.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. In particular part three talked about what happened if we saw a double dip in 2010-11 or a “lost decade.&#. Fast forward a year to September 2010 and I wrote my treatise on the 2010 economy.

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