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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” founder fighting. I have watched Jim Andelman blow out his personal life to help build spreadsheet models for one of our co-investments at a critical inflection point.

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MentorMob.com Aims To Revolutionize Learning Through Crowdsourcing

YoungUpstarts

But Chicago-based startup MentorMob ( www.mentormob.com ) wants to change that – the free, community-based collaborative service aims to aggregate and organize the best online educational content on any topic, so it’s easier to find. The company is currently seeking first-round venture capital and institutional funding.

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Shark Tank Lessons for Startups

YoungUpstarts

by Amit Damani , cofounder of Vista Rooms. Currently in its 7th season, the show features a panel of potential venture capital investors, called “sharks”, that considers offers from aspiring entrepreneurs seeking investments for their business or products. We bring you a lowdown of lessons from Shark Tank: 1.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walker

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. What She’s Learned, And What You Can Learn From Her. We had overlapping circles and then became friends. Enter Box.

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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. . To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . 3) Raise capital. When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

We faced this same problem in entrepreneurship and venture capital, but we are getting past it. ► August (2) SXSW Case Study: SlideShare goes freemium ► July (4) Case Study: kaChing, Anatomy of a Pivot Some IPO speculation Founder personalities and the “first-class man&# th.