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

David Teten

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing.

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Four Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”

Rob Go

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. But a lot of entrepreneurs and investors were hoping for a really strong showing to drive more liquidity in the market and continue the surge in hype around internet companies (both start-ups and later stage companies).

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going.