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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. For technology vendors and models, see Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments. . Note this model amounts to lead-generation for the expert network, so you may be able to negotiate a lower rate than normal.

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

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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I’ve Built Multiple Growth Teams. Here’s Why I Won’t Do It Again.

ConversionXL

I joined as employee 14 and spent a few years at this analytics startup, which was founded by Hiten Shah and Neil Patel. We ran A/B tests around the clock on our free-trial funnel for nine months and got these wins: Quadrupled monthly lead volume in one year; Tripled the conversion rate from visitor-to-trial signups on our homepage.

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Twitter Conversions: 7 Steps to Generate More Clicks

ConversionXL

Check aggregator sites that feature tweets. Depending on your business model and products you offer, this step could involve: Creating a free lead generation magnet (a whitepaper, a cheatsheet); Giving away a freebie (like a free chapter from a book you’re selling, a t-shirt, etc.); But there are other options.

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5 Ways to Gain Brand Ambassadors (And Keep Them)

Duct Tape Marketing

Viralheat is a great social media listening tool that provides in-depth analytics for mentions of your brand name, products, location, and competition. Using Hootsuite, you can set up a stream that will aggregate all of the conversations about your brand even if they don’t tag you in it. Look for the most engaged followers.

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Cracking The Code: The Bessemer 10 laws of SaaS - Fall 2008.

Cracking the Code

In my case (LucidEra -- a SaaS analytics provider focusing on sales, marketing, and financial analytics), weve found that success requires not only building some best practices for analytics into our solution, but also coming up with a repeatable and scalable way to show the customer how to use the analytics and how to interpret the results.