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Talk to Your Heroes: How I Built a Virtual Board That Enhances My Decision-Making

Paul G. Silva

They helped me: Refine my messaging for three distinct audiences Identify a new opportunity for angel groups to meet one-on-one with PE firms Validate the idea’s strengths without diluting the core message Just this morning, I met with my virtual board to improve my participant exit interviews.

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14 Tips on How to Sell to Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds

David Teten VC

For example, Maestro ’s founders partnered with PEVCtech to organize a dinner strictly for Partner/Principals of PE/VC firms. Will Jacobsen, Head of Partnerships at TOGGLE AI , observed, “We monitor social media with Sprout Social to see customer pain points where we know our product can add value. Monitor job changes.

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How to win consulting, board and deal roles with PE and VC funds

TechCrunch

A BCG study of 121 investments found that operational improvement drives 48% of value creation in PE-backed companies. PE funds now almost always require an upgrade in management and change management teams if necessary. Then private equity players gradually realized that value cannot be created through financial engineering alone.

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Greenhouse CEO Daniel Chait on how AI is changing human resources and weaning his company off venture funding via private equity

Hunter Walk

DC: Here’s how this relationship came about in the first place: I had a longstanding relationship with TPG by way of the RISE Fund (TPG’s Social Impact investing fund). The RISE Fund, which takes a quantitative approach to social impact, aligns well with our core values and social impact mission.

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

David Teten VC

So, having a good way to keep those highly important people top-of-mind AND to chronicle your last touchpoints (including social media touchpoints) is really important.”. Marketing/social media : Hootsuite (social media management), Mailchimp (email list and audience management), and Google Suite. . HISTORIC TECH STACK.

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How to find a job as a scout for a VC firm

TechCrunch

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media, blog posts, etc. These are primarily full-time team members, but PE funds also employ investment banks as well as freelance “finders.” We list all of them below.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.