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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

The ten questions that make up the core of the Gust executive summary (and that in turn comprise the bulk of the ‘One Pager’ that investors print out for screening and review sessions) are only the distilled tip of the iceberg. from people and organizations that you didn’t even know existed.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide.

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Reinventing Life Science Startups–Therapeutics and Diagnostics

Steve Blank

has gone offshore primarily due to the toughened regulatory environment. For exits, acquisitions are the rule and IPOs the exception. It has gotten so bad that pension funds and other institutional investors in venture capital funds have told these funds to stay away from Life Science – or at the least, early stage Life Science.