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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

I’ve recently come across several of such lists and I thought it could be useful to aggregate them and share them here. Bitcoin Allocation – Growing the role of bitcoin in investment portfolios. What’s missing is the last mile — distribution, customer journey design, guardrails and workflow automation.

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Why Average VC Returns Don’t Really Matter

Agile VC

LPs investing in venture hold a subset of all the funds in the VC universe by design (see #4 & 5). It’s true that FoFs provide LPs a way to purchase VC funds in a basket, but by design these are comparatively narrow actively-managed investment funds rather than broad-based passive vehicles.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.”

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Will there be a wave of ‘maker-centric’ companies?

The Equity Kicker

Formlabs, makers of a high-resolution 3D printer aimed at engineers and design professionals. RedBearLab, which makes a wearable BlueTooth 4.0 board you can use to interface with an iPhone or Android device. Deezmaker, another 3D printer vendor, this one aimed at making an affordable printer called the Bukobot.

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Multi-Channel Attribution Modeling: The Good, Bad and Ugly Models

Occam's Razor

But how do we distribute credit for the conversions across all those channels? The outcome in either scenario is a restructuring of the organization that is exquisitely geared towards taking advantage of portfolio optimization. You can even get great first-step guidance about how to rebalance your portfolio from that last column.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

These take considerable time to design, build and populate, and require regular use and “feeding of the beast”, as we call it. We believe this way we can extrapolate insights for our particular business model (portfolio operator VC fund) previously missed out.”. How can accelerating portfolio company value be aided by use of software?

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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? It’s often possible to “ design around ” a patent to operate a business that achieves similar results in different ways.) What kind of advantage will this create vs. our competitors ?