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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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Why Convoy’s Dan Lewis expects digital freight to go mainstream within the year

TechCrunch

The executive has a background in strategy and management consulting that progressed into a career in product development for top tech companies like Google and Amazon. Lewis and Grant Goodale co-founded Convoy in 2015 , and since then, have brought on a series of high-profile investors. At least, not at first.

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60 Top Women-led Venture Capital Firms

American Entrepreneurship

DYVVYD : work with diverse teams who are actively seeking capital that are self-launched, self-scaled or recent graduates of an incubated or accelerator cohort. Valor Ventures : founded by Lisa Calhoun in 2015, the firm has a diverse team investing in seed rounds for AI / B2B startups in the South. Secretary of Commerce.

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Behind the Scenes: Building an Angel Experience You Will Never Forget

Angel Capital Association

Prior to her CD2H role, she was the Entrepreneurial Program Director at the Oregon Bioscience Incubator, where she helped grow the incubator three-fold and spearheaded statewide programs and partnerships to support entrepreneurs and startups. Drucker and Masatoshi Ito Graduate School of Management of Claremont Graduate University.

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What Future for Accelerators?

Both Sides of the Table

Adam had a full time startup and then was doing consulting (he later raised a VC fund). We have some announcements set for 2015. With the success of Idealab in the 90’s every city was building out incubators. Throughout all of these years I was a full-time VC so Launchpad really came out of evenings and weekends for me.