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

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 1) Market fund.

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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 ? Later stage companies have some additional concerns: What favorable impact could IP have for PR, marketing and investor relations purposes, or as an attraction to potential acquirors? How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ?

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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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How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC Syndicate

Genuine VC

The board seat dance at the seed stage can be challenge on either direction, with occasionally no firms wanting to designate someone’s time for the role and sometimes more than one looking for an official board role that isn’t a fit at this stage. We’ve seen it directly in our portfolio companies raising successive rounds.

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

While the group sentiment for 2010 did not improve significantly vs. November 2009, the projections for 2011 are now a lot more optimistic - 42% higher 2011 aggregated EBITDA announced in March 2010 vs. the November 09! Portfolio. (3). Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr. Design courtesy of Ashley Cecil.

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The 10 laws of SaaS unveiled at Bessemer CEO Summit

Cracking the Code

A few times per year, Bessemer organizes a CxO event for our portfolio companies and we decided to focus our first session of 2008 on Software-as-a-service (SaaS). This invite-only event for our portfolio companies and close friends of the firm was designed to be fairly intimate and interactive. Monday, February 04, 2008.

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“A natural, & healthy, tension between myself & the people I write about.” How The Verge’s Casey Newton Handles ‘Tech Friends.’

Hunter Walker

Are your competitors aggregating your work? So I try to look at it in the aggregate—is my audience growing over time? Most of the tech conferences I’ve been to don’t offer much in the way of insight; they seem to be designed primarily to protect and promote the companies that they’re showcasing. CN: Not well!