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

Private Equity Wire

PARTNER CONTENT The landscape of venture capital deal sourcing has evolved significantly over the past few years. This shift means that the competition for high-quality deals is intense, while the urgency to deploy capital remains high. Below are three key best practices for deal sourcing in 2025: 1.

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How to Get into Venture Capital - An Update

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About seven years ago, I wrote a post on breaking into venture capital and I continue to point the five or six people a week who ask me how to break into venture. There''s really no easier way to get into venture than to find some money, reach out to smart folks to learn, and start writing checks.

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Antler’s ESG evolution in the shifting landscape of Venture Capital

Private Equity Wire

In the evolving venture capital (VC) landscape, Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) considerations have become integral to Antler’s global ethos, positioning the firm as a sustainability leader. PEW: What challenges and opportunities exist for firms in light of the current ESG regulatory frameworks for venture capital?

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The Problem with Startup Advice

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When people tell you how and why they raised capital or what drove their app to success, they often attribute success to planning or neat little explainable reasons when they might simply have no clue what happened. Venture capital is kind of like a knuckleball. Most startups fail.

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Growth is a Commodity

This is going to be BIG.

Marketing problems, for the most part, are solvable by a very distinct set of best practices. Venture Capital & Technology' If people engage regularly with your product, but you can''t get more people to use it, you''ve got a marketing problem. It''s a basic part of running a business, so don''t skip it entirely either.

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Connecting the Sellers of NYC's Salesperson Community

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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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My Role as a VC: What I am and what I am not.

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I''m learning everyday and I count on founders to be the ones that bring the best insight into the problems they face in their industry. If I can provide helpful context about some of the seed stage startup best practices, great, but they know their company best. Venture Capital & Technology'