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

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables.

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

David Teten

645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. Carta , Captable.io , Certent , EquityEffect , and ShareWorks by Morgan Stanley track private company cap tables. . Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

And these are people that we spent so much time to hire. We went through hundreds of thousands of resumes to hire those 1,900 people and we do so much to bring them in and to have to say goodbye to them, I'd say that was the hardest part. I'm perhaps an oddity of Silicon Valley because I'm not an engineer by training.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It'd be great if we could somehow hire people all over the world, that would be great. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. It almost had like a social engineering component to it, as much as it was an algorithmic breakthrough. And so you want a lot of variety in the people that you hire.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. These are the parties on the cap table prior to the transaction. So instead you hire your own representation to look after your own interest. This data set looks at 8,610 IPOS over 39 years from 1980-2019.

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