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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

I recruited a top-flight engineer and serial entrepreneur to build our MVP, on equity?—?and As we self-funded on a tiny amount of cash, sweat equity and vision, we also worked in a methodical manner, moving the ball down the field week by week. swing for the fences category-building B2C software capital?—?wasn’t

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Helpful Money Metrics to Help Monitor The Health of Your Company

Mike Michalowicz

Profit Margin = Net Income/Sales. Debt To Equity Ratio = Total Liabilities/Total Stockholder’s Equity. Dividing a company’s liabilities by the total of the stockholder’s equity gives you a read on how much debt the company is carrying compared to what the company is currently worth. Weekly Lead Generation.

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Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing

Austin Startup

I’ve limited our net worth in startup investing to around 5% of our wealth. It doesn’t mean you won’t be able to help other companies, and we are in many B2C startups, for example. And we invested in Forerunner Ventures because they understand B2C and serve a different geography, and others. Half of our startups are SaaS.

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Dear Avinash: Search / SEO Metrics & Analytics Questions + Answers

Occam's Razor

But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. The basic techniques you use to do search engine optimization between b2b and b2c do not change all that much. Ok All that is the same, no matter if you are a b2b, b2c, b2a (business to aliens, yes they do exist!).