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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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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

Impact Investing has been around for a long time, most prominently since the 1960’s as companies and governments began engaging with the concept through private equity and debt investing in developing economies. Impact tech investors include Bridges Fund Managements, DBL, Accion, Elevar equity and Patamar, among others.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. affiliate and referral marketing on the web. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc. VC & Startup Resources.

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VentureGeeks Unveils Pre-Seed Investments in Five Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

We wrote about the VentureGeeks incubator on VC Cafe a few months ago, and its plans to set up a $2 million early stage fund making pre-seed investments. The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. According to their research, overall returns on group-affiliated angel investments average to a 2.6X According to their research, overall returns on group-affiliated angel investments average to a 2.6X

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$.