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That’s very accurate. PE Buyout Funds. Publicly traded parent companies with corporate VC arms scooping up the most profitable sector-specific subsidiaries. Fund of Funds get more popular and much more strategic. Family Offices dominate the landscape. Not investment advice.

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Toby Z. Rice, EQT Corporation and the Rice family are bona fide American heroes. They are a national treasure, steering the fight not only for abundant affordable energy for Americans, but American energy independence and economic dominance around the world. The facts are simple: The vast majority of the world still depends on oil and coal. LNG is simply the largest, most actionable, and most economic tool for decarbonization humanity has ready at their disposal today. Period. Let us unleash it. Halting LNG is simply unpatriotic. Worried about the plight of developing nations? Trust me as someone whose family originated from Bangladesh, one of the poorest nations historically speaking, more lives and economies are at risk when nations are energy insecure. Hard to live, cook, have air conditioning, run businesses, run factories and enable a national workforce to thrive when you don’t have energy, and power goes out multiple times a day.. And when LNG is unleashed, America becomes more secure thanks to the stronger relations it creates with other nations. Proud to have the Rice family as a partner and frequent collaborator at 8090 Industries. Inspiring words from Toby Z. Rice himself: “We're not fighting for our business. We're not fighting for pipelines. We're not fighting for LNG. We're fighting for our customers, which is you. All of you. We're fighting for America because energy is everything.” Cc Ryan Rice Danny Rice Kerem Ozmen Wes Mendenhall Filip Vurdelja Haluk Sabanci Dincer Grant Brown Ishan Meswani Garuth A. Andrew Irwin Shilpa Patel

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🌟 𝗩𝗖 𝗜𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗘𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝘀 🌟 Preparation can make all the difference in a venture capital interview. Here’s a guide to nail it: 📝 Prepare Your Answers: Common questions include your company’s mission, market size, and competitors. 📊 Highlight Metrics: Share key metrics like user growth and revenue to demonstrate traction and success. ⭐ Express Future Vision: Outline your short-term and long-term goals for your company’s growth. Equipped with detailed responses, you can approach your VC interview with confidence. #StartupPreparation #EntrepreneurAdvice #VCSuccess

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The best startup lesson you’ll receive today: "Raising capital is about selling belief in your vision, not just your product." Here’s why: Investors are betting on you and your ability to deliver. Numbers matter, but passion and purpose drive investments. Transparency builds trust—share your challenges and your successes. In a world where everyone’s focused on their product, remember: Showing belief in your vision is your greatest asset. ♻️ Repost if you liked this, 📢 Comment or DM me "𝗳𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴" to hear more from me about raising money for your startup. I'm here to serve! #business #entrepreneurship #fundraising

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What's more important to success in a PE-backed business: strategy or execution? Um... both. Good execution of a bad strategy = fail. Weak execution of a good strategy = fail. Awesome conversation with Nick Bradley on The Scale Up Podcast! #PrivateEquity #ValueCreation

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Great insights about exits the next few years

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Tech Scenes Unplugged: Brett Brohl, Founder and Managing Partner of bread & Butter ventures, agrees: when it comes to raising capital, your month over month growth is everything. Successful teams do this by creating a clear lens on their long term, mid term and short term goals. Having these three optics allows teams be unified as they make decisions and scale at the speed needed to keep growing. #venturebacked #vcbacked #venturecapital #leadership #ceo #founder #operatingsystem

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Should VC Scouts be Spending Time w/Syndicate Leads? As a syndicate lead, I’ve substantially leaned into working with VC scouts the past 3-4 years. It's been a great, and a differentiated way to gain unique access to deal flow. Many of my most exciting portfolio companies have come from various “VC scouts”. While this has become increasingly core to my sourcing strategy, it’s equally been beneficial to the scouts who are capitalizing on a large portion of the carried interest for their support in sourcing and diligence. And for the record, we keep using the term “scout” but this really applies to anyone who truly has unique access to startups/founders. This post is for you. We’d love to work with you :) In this week's Last Money In Media post, I’m going to make the case that most venture capital scouts should spend less time scouting for venture funds and more time (or focus) scouting for venture capital syndicates. If you are scouting deals because you want to invest, capitalize on carried interest, and do more deals, scouting is the way to go, and working with syndicate leads will likely lead to more deal activity. The exception to this post is if you are scouting for venture funds that hope you to join. In that case, syndicate leads will not be as helpful. In this post, I will break down key differences between syndicates and venture funds as it relates to upside for venture scouts or anyone who has strong deal flow and wants to capitalize on it. We’ll cover: - How scouting has evolved over the recent years in the syndicate ecosystem - How Zachary and I frequently work with scouts - How the carry works and can be more attractive when scouting for syndicate leads - The general enthusiasm of syndicates to work with scouts - Incentives for scouts - How this applies to junior VC’s who are looking for more deal activity - And more! Link to full article in comments! -- Powered by Sydecar and Forge, Last Money In Media is the most actionable venture capital newsletter. Written by Zachary Ginsburg and Alex Pattis, the global syndicate leaders with 800+ SPVs invested.

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HEAVY focus video for advanced CEOs -> 98% of CEOs including at $500 million revenue scale are focusing on so many things (slowing their company acceleration down) instead of effortless yet rigorous cross value domain priority “calculations”. This video is for advanced execs. It’s fair to say…no one teaches this the way we have done this across companies, industries and countries. After I managed at million $ and billion $ scale, wrote 4 billion variable algorithms to do this (at high end versions) and implemented it over and over..I can absolutely say it works for us and our clients. This is not a sales video...just informational on how anyone can do this. We hope this helps whether you are pre-revenue or crossing $1 billion for your first time. Also covered… - AB testing science/calculations that are THE core to life and company success - The actual mechanism that causes people to lose focus, stop believing in their attempt and get unnecessarily overwhelmed - Why 1 month initiatives take people 10 months unnecessarily - just by skipping a 60 sec calculation   - Why the more ambitious people tend to get off track the most - all we need is a focus on “most efficient order” and “team/self bandwidth bounds” - It’s essential to have clear goals for 1 day, 1 week, 1 month, 1 year, 2yrs, 5yrs, 10yrs - Why we won’t work with, consult or invest in execs that do not have solid cross value domain priority calculations or execs who cannot start working with solid cross value domain priority calculations asap - Hire for just the roles that extend runway enough to get you to a runway buffer that can withstand project “failures” (experiments) that are inherent to a degree when you are growing into new things or accelerating quickly - Lacking priorities also kills the must have “positive frequency” you need to be in to operate at your highest capacity - Priority calculations should be shared with the team to create autonomous decision frameworks that scale - Lacking skills in a department is a “silent killer” - Every meeting needs priorities of the meeting as well - and to bound them to time and decision target that is tied to revenue or a top 3 priority item - Non-consistent sleep, exercise, nutrition and emotional control is one of the biggest tells that a CEO is not on their game and not going to go where they want to go in the timeline they want to For context we have a 4 billion variable function that optimizes the entirety of companies (we use it in the consulting) Every person, landing page, strategy, development cycle, design, legal context …across food, software, clothing, gaming, manufacturing, etc ..all optimized So what is discussed is grounded in mechanisms that really work across companies, industries and countries. Savannah Kelley and I hope you enjoy our nuanced chat for advanced execs :-) 

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VC exits next 10 years - much fewer IPOs - much smaller strategic M&A - PE will become the norm I explain in this clip how it will affect VC Full episode: https://lnkd.in/gaJ-TWZE

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 VCs advise founders to raise less and give up less equity. But is this strategy paying off? In the latest episode, Alex Wilhelm and I discuss the current state of seed

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💡 A troubling trend in venture capital... 💡 Boom then Bust... Here's what's happening: 25% Drop in Active VC Investors 📉 The number of investors participating in VC deals has dropped significantly—from 15,303 in 2023 to 11,425 this year. That’s the lowest level in a decade. Rise of Zombie Funds 🧟 Many VCs are turning into “zombie funds,” unable to raise new capital or invest in startups. They linger on management fees without contributing to new growth. Potential Long-Term Effects ⚠️ Fewer investors mean less capital for early-stage startups, stifling innovation and economic impact over time. Industry Consolidation 📊 Fewer players and fewer deals could hurt the startup ecosystem, slowing down the flow of new ideas and talent. If this trend doesn’t reverse, the lack of funding could have lasting impacts. What are you seeing?

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3/4 of PE investors and execs surveyed agree that culture is critical to portfolio company success... ...yet only about 1/4 of them actually evaluate a target company's culture. (credit: Alix Partners) If you're in the 50%+ of PE folks that believe in the importance of culture, but aren't actually evaluating it, here's how to close that gap. → What is the culture? (I can help with this) → Which parts of that will support our value creation agenda? → Which parts could get in the way? → What needs to happen to remove those cultural roadblocks? Enjoyed hanging out with Omeed and Joe on The SaaS Buyers Club podcast! #PrivateEquity #Culture #ValueCreation

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The future of growth is customer-led. GTM strategies that include customers are the pathway forward. I shared some thoughts with the brilliant guys from TACK, have a listen and share your thoughts below! #Customer-LedGrowth #CustomerMarketing #SaaS

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2 active fund offerings from the Echelon Fund team who have been killing it ever since their cohort at The Fund School. https://lnkd.in/gVd-dhfY sidecarportfoliofund.com This presentation of Echelon Fund, LLC and Sidecar Portfolio Fund (the “Company”) is for information only and shall not constitute an offer to buy, sell, issue or subscribe for, or the solicitation of an offer to buy, sell or issue, or subscribe for any securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The information contained herein is subject to change without notice and is based on publicly-available information, internally developed data, third party information and other sources. The third party information has not been independently verified. While the Company may not have verified the third party information, nevertheless, it believes that it obtained the information from reliable sources and has no reason to believe it is not accurate in all material respects.

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