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APRIL 18, 2014

The number of tools available to sales groups has skyrocketed--so keeping up with best practices seems more of a challenge than over. On Monday, I''ve got a best practices event going with top sales folks from H.Bloom, Offerpop and JW Player and it''s something I''d love to discuss with the sales professionals in attendance.

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MARCH 13, 2010

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NOVEMBER 30, 2011

I've had the privilege of working not only for investors like Josh Kopelman and Fred Wilson, but for an institutional LP that had been invested in venture capital since 1980. 3) Build a peer network and get in the flow of best practices. Get coffee with someone who has been doing your job for years every week.

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OCTOBER 16, 2013

It''s important for a founder to publicly project a set of values, believes, share knowledge and best practices and be seen as a leader not just at the company, but in their market. Venture Capital & Technology' Any founder not working on their own brand is doing their company a disservice. Investors want to back leaders.

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Private Equity Wire

MAY 22, 2024

Ghanaian private capital fund manager Injaro Investment Advisors has acquired Outdoor Holding Limited via its fund, Injaro Ghana Venture Capital Fund, from Africa-focused private equity firm Adenia Partners. Outdoor Holding controls a majority stake in Ghanaian out-of-home advertising company DDP Outdoor.

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DECEMBER 4, 2019

A lot is made of the best practices around raising capital—but I think a lot of the advice is a bit too clever. First off, most of it is parroted by people who never raised any money. They’ll come up with a lot of reasons why raises didn’t happen, like “The round fell apart because it was too close to the holidays.”

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Private Equity Wire

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

PARTNER CONTENT By Muhammad Akram, CPA Founder, Akram | Assurance, Advisory & Tax Firm Why fair value is so important Fair value impacts net assets/partners’ capital, potentially overstating performance and overcharging management and performance fees. The cost approach encompasses investment cost, cost to build and replacement cost.

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MARCH 29, 2010

What if you weren’t just a platform for distribution of deals, but a kind of local virtual chamber of commerce or small business organization—with some social networking features so that retailers could get together to share best practices, work with each other, cross-sell, etc.

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DECEMBER 5, 2011

He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. I realized that a position at Union Square Ventures was going to be open in a year and that he had a terrific chance of getting it. I'll talk more about this at my upcoming General Assembly talk , but here's the outline.

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Million Dollar Round Table (MDRT)

JANUARY 14, 2024

Each of those salespeople has one-on-one meetings with me to set up their own planning for the year with my observations and maybe some best practices they can focus on. I have a team of 15 people, including 10 salespeople. I’m incorporating my trips, my planning and all my continuing education as well as client reviews.

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Private Equity Wire

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In line with industry best practices and global standards, our annual reporting covers a wide range of topics, from environmental impact and social responsibility to corporate governance. Małgorzata has been the President the Board of the Polish Private Equity and Venture Capital Association since 2022.

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MAY 14, 2012

They don't have a stake in it--and by not actively putting themselves out there as a source of capital, they're not in the information flow. They carry with them information about patterns of success, pitfalls, best practices and trends to look for.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Use CrunchConnect to record the sales calls and business development of your whole team, so that you can highlight best practices and spot trouble areas. Reporters are always connected, so they might have more time to check out what you're doing now. Build up your analytics capability.

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JANUARY 12, 2011

By recording the calls from your best sales professionals, and allowing you to share them across your team, you can immediately create an environment that focuses on best practices. The real excitement over Salescrunch, though, is how the platform can help you make your sales team perform better.

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Mainsail

OCTOBER 29, 2024

To highlight the many exciting growth stories and shared best practices within its portfolio, Mainsail recently dedicated its new website launch to the founder experience. went straight to the source: entrepreneurs who have sold to private equity and venture capital firms. To see the complete list, go to: [link].

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

They suggest changes and discuss best practices. To successfully build an open source project--or any project for that matter--you need the best tools. Github provides a great lesson from the world of open source and a great model for Docracy.

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DECEMBER 23, 2011

That's why prominent VC bloggers who came here and started here seemed to leapfrog existing capital that was here in terms of presence in the ecosystem. They are stakeholders in the ecosystem who want to spread the word about best practices, potential areas of interest, and about the successes of their portfolio companies.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Let the junior person work with them to set their priorities for the week, come back to them to check their work, be available for advice--and the net result will be that you'll get a lot of hustle, cheaply, but in the right direction and using the best practices of a career of experience.

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APRIL 11, 2011

Last year, First Round Capital , my current firm, updated our page to make it even more interactive, pulling in shared links, Foursquare updates, and linking to our Twitter, LinkedIn, and Honestly.com pages. Would it kill anyone to write a business development blog that details the best practices for successful partnerships?

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Private Equity Wire

JUNE 21, 2023

LIVE: Private Equity US ESG Summit Submitted 21/06/2023 - 8:00am The Private Equity US ESG Summit is a one-day retreat focusing on emerging opportunities and best practice in ESG for operations, finance, legal and back-office leaders across private equity, venture capital and private markets funds.

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Cobalt

JULY 19, 2023

It’s a must-have tool for any competitive private capital manager. Here’s a sampling of the best practices we’ve learned along the way: Define the business objectives of implementation. Successful implementation of investment portfolio management software isn’t just some ideal-state dream. How will workflows improve?

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OCTOBER 24, 2011

That kind of atmosphere has real cost benefit and will undoubtedly provide a better service experience—particular because low turnover helps knowledge of best practices stay within the organization.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

They'll usually speak for free if it means helping out their local developer community with best practices. If you already have an iPhone developer on staff, they can lead the discussion. If you don't, go find the top developers in your local area.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Venture capital is basically the complete opposite. You have the preparation and the best practices. Capital Network You know exactly who you would go to for next round capital and to fill out a round--have worked with specific partners or at least these firms before. Actually, it’s even worse than that.

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The Motley Fool

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Focusing on these priorities will allow us to achieve our financial objectives, maintaining our solid investment-grade credit rating, investing back into the business, and delivering on our capital allocation priorities, including buybacks. The board and I are fully aligned on our capital allocation strategy. sequentially.

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JMI Equity

MAY 16, 2023

Led by Sapphire Ventures, latest investment round brings total equity funding to $118 million ELLICOTT CITY, Md., About Sapphire Sapphire is a leading global technology-focused venture capital firm with ~$10B in AUM and team members across Austin, London, Menlo Park, New York, and San Francisco.

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The Motley Fool

MAY 28, 2024

Also, Whole Foods co-founder John Mackey talks through lessons learned about life and business and his book The Whole Story: Adventures in Love, Life, and Capitalism. We were down 90% and we traded onto new highs, got our all-time market capitalization high of about 24 billion. Let's get best practices. Rowe Price.

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Pension Pulse

JUNE 14, 2023

The pension says the new structure will help it share information, co-sourcing, and best practices across its global platform. This is a great interview where Jo talks about his upbringing, education and discusses his time with 3i which educated him in Venture capital and growth investing.

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Pension Pulse

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Private Equity Market Trends and Challenges: The proliferation of private equity funds (from 3,000 to 16,000) has led to a stuck capital situation, making it difficult for smaller managers to raise funds. Lastly, on niche strategies like venture, he's also right, good luck getting a meaningful allocation.

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The Motley Fool

JULY 27, 2023

Total consideration is expected to be approximately $180 million, subject to certain working capital and other adjustments. To that end, earlier this morning, we announced that our board of directors has authorized our recently formed WEX Venture Capital team to invest up to $100 million through the end of 2025.

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Pension Pulse

AUGUST 15, 2023

Transactions Highlights Ontario Teachers’ manages approximately 80% of assets internally, with a focus on deploying capital into active strategies. Expanded into Spain and France with Boreal IM joint venture acquiring logistics assets. During the first half of 2023, the fund continued to diversify investments globally.

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DECEMBER 15, 2014

The more mental defenses and best practices you built up, the easier it will be to survive the journey over the long haul. This happens a ton in the venture capital world where bigger always seems better--but maybe it''s not. Venture Capital & Technology' That includes mentally. When does it stop?

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JANUARY 29, 2010

Running the e-mail marketing Meetup group wouldn’t be a bad thing either—because then I know that you’re tapped in to the flow of best practices and that you could even perhaps bring your network to bear when we need to expand the team under you. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology.

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APRIL 11, 2010

People ask me all the time how to get a job in venture capital or at a startup, and the one thing that I can point to that has enabled me to get the jobs I’ve gotten has been my contributions to the innovation community. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology nextNY. Startup success has also diversified across sectors.

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NOVEMBER 26, 2012

The idea of working together in communities to share best practices around creation has inspired companies that get people doing stuff like Makerbot and Windowfarms. Need to find a collaborator? Go to Collabfinder , of course--where instead of following people, you do things with them.

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Private Capital Investment in Latin America

MARCH 4, 2025

DEALS > UNICORN SoftBank Group and Dynamo led a US$190m Series E round in MadeiraMadeira, a Brazilian home goods e-commerce startup, with participation from VELT Partners, Brasil Capital, and Brazilian family office Lakewood Investment Management, and follow-on from monashees and Flybridge Capital. Acumen led a US$4.5m

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The Motley Fool

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Sunil will cover our financial results and fourth quarter outlook, including increases in full year guidance for each of our segments, and will provide insight on how we're looking at our 2025 capital plans. billion in free cash flow before working capital, exceeding guidance in all three segments. production in our history.

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