I’ve posted below a slide deck and a video on VC investment sourcing. I published the first formal study on private equity/VC deal origination best practices in the Journal of Private Equity, which became for several years their #1 all-time most-read article. I’ve also published on sourcing in the Harvard Business Review, Institutional Investor, etc., and continue to write regularly on origination. For more on this topic, see:
- Where are the deals? How VCs source winning companies
- The 11 steps of using technology to improve investing in private companies: How private equity and VC investors are eating their own dogfood
- 14 Tips on How to Sell to Private Equity and Venture Capital Funds (for investors who want to be invited to join syndicates)
- How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors
- Private Equity Origination Best Practices