Venture Capital

• Search for assess an entrepreneur through their profile paying particular attention to length of stay at previous positions, recommendations from superiors and team members, and common connections who can provide additional perspective.
• Use Advanced Search to find an expert on the business model or industry for their opinion of the team, opportunity, and competitive landscape.
• Use company search to research companies youa re interested in. Go deeper than the executive team and look at the backgrounds of all current employees. The importance of human capital aside, the caliber of recruits can often reflect on the quality of the idea as well.

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It’s difficult to ensure you always get a first-look at promising new opportunities.

LinkedIn Helps

• Having a robust profile that clearly communicates past investments, notable entrepreneurs worked with, boards you sit on, successful exits, recommendations, etc, helps convince promising entrepreneurs to find and reach out to you through trusted connections.
• Your Network Updates will notify you as soon as a connection changes positions (and is potentially leaving to found a company). But in order to be among the first to know that a talented member of your network is moving on, you must first ensure you are connected on LinkedIn.

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Your connections are one of the most valuable resources for a start-up, but given demands on your time, it can be difficult to efficiently make all the requested Introductions.

LinkedIn Helps

• Help with an investment’s hiring by forwarding their LinkedIn job posting to your network.
• Making a LinkedIn Introduction is often the quickest way to bring two people together. Their profiles offer a robust overview of each party, leaving you to simply bring them together and describe the opportunity.

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