The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. But how do you do that?
The late Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen found that in many sectors, low-end disruptors take hold at the bottom of the market and then work up to satisfy more demanding segments.
What does an investment management firm look like when it's redesigned based on first principles and based on the true "jobs to be done" of an investment manager?
Power in the investment management industry is shifting to the money holders from money managers, driven by several major economic, social and political trends.
Asset management is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Here are six main examples of just how peculiar this industry is.
Many governments that are not major tech hubs (i.e., most countries excluding the U.S., China, Israel and India) should stop restricting themselves to supporting locally domiciled VC funds.
As someone with "founder" on your resume, you face a greater challenge when trying to get a salaried job. You’ve already shown that you really want to lead a company and not just rise up the ladder.
There are relatively few jobs directly inside private equity and venture capital funds, and those jobs are highly competitive. However, there are many other ways you can work within the industry.
Approaching institutions to raise capital for your venture capital or private equity fund is relatively transparent, but what if you’re targeting family offices and high-net-worth individuals?
One of the best business models currently is serving as a market-maker between investors and investment opportunities. But the challenge with this market is: How do you get the investors to show up?
Raising capital for a new fund is always hard. But should you give preferential economics or other benefits to a seed anchor investor who makes a material commitment to the fund?
Almost every private equity and venture capital investor now advertises that they have a platform to support their portfolio companies.
We’ve identified six common patterns of how VCs articulate their theses, and some best practices in doing so.
Research shows that diverse teams, companies and founders pay, so why are all of the VC home runs from white men, or Asian men in Asia, plus a few Asian men in the U.S.?
Based on my experience, taking the 15 steps below will help build the core of a high-performing fundraising and investor relations function.
A dozen active investors who offer funding via revenue-based, compensation-based and blended-return streams.
A new category of investors has emerged offering a hybrid between VC and revenue-based investment (RBI), which we call “flexible VC."
Celebrities or influencers with millions of followers have a large service industry and tech stack to serve their needs. But the standard toolkit of a microinfluencer is still evolving.
VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same tools we've used for the past 20+ years — Excel and recent college grads searching Google.
Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our counterparts in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job.
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