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Deal sourcing guide for venture capital 2025: Best practices for today’s marketP

Private Equity Wire

According to data from Pitchbook and Affinity’s annual predictions survey, more than a third of nearly 300 respondents identified due diligence criteria as a major factor impacting deal flow. With a 76% increase in the number of funds in operation from 2015 to 2023, the pressure to identify and close deals has never been higher.

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Why Should a Founder Meet With You?

This is going to be BIG.

What if I ran a community of GTM experts and hosted a podcast about the best practices and success stories of new companies that punched above their weight on the marketing side? What successful founder wouldn’t reach out to me to brainstorm strategies and potential first hires?

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Accessibility as an Advantage in Venture Capital: Why Creating Value for Everyone in the Community Wins

This is going to be BIG.

Opening up our circle to create and scale genuine engagement for people outside of typical venture networks is how we do business—and we’re getting exceptional deal flow because of that. But diversity isn’t any kind of criteria for us—it’s a function of trying to create value for the whole ecosystem--not just those you back.

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The Art of Deal Sourcing in Middle Market Private Equity

The Private Equiteer

In the middle market, where every deal counts, you need to be both methodical and a bit opportunistic. Building a Healthy Deal Flow Deal flow is a term youll hear in almost every PE conversation. Referrals: Good old-fashioned word-of-mouth remains one of the best sources for deal flow.

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Real talk on fundraising for a small fund

This is going to be BIG.

That’s why I share my deal flow with them free of any additional fees and carry. That’s also why we do educational classes on VC best practices. I’m here to make money for them, but if I can make new and better investors, too, that’s just as rewarding.

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Level Setting and Career Goals for VCs: What level are Midas List VCs actually performing on?

This is going to be BIG.

That’s how it feels when your hot deal from two years ago winds up running low on cash and gets into a pay-to-play round that wipes out the cap table. You have the preparation and the best practices. You're competing against other top tier VCs for your deal flow--as top founders look to get backed by top investors.

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Omega Healthcare Investors (OHI) Q1 2024 Earnings Call Transcript

The Motley Fool

Unfortunately, many of the constructive industry ideas and comments that include the use of technology and certain best practices were not included in the final rule. We don't really toggle a dollar amount to that number of deals, but it's substantial. That's senior housing. That's U.S. That's U.K.

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