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

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. 4) Manage deal flow. She is a model for us all! .

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team. Warning sign? At best. ~

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

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Another provider which identifies email addresses of strangers is Contactout. Her answer? ‘I