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

David Teten

As a globally focused LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

Large private equity funds like KKR can afford to pursue a consulting model ( Capstone ), typically with associated fees, but that doesn’t normally make economic sense for a VC. the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

With new micro VC entrants into to early-stage investing plus increased competition from angels, incubators and the like – traditional VCs have taken notice. So VCs spent a couple of years experimenting with earlier-stage investing, which is OK. The Explosion in Early-Stage Innovation. There are also others.

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Angel Investors Do Make Money, Data Shows 2.5x Returns Overall

Gust

Conventional wisdom dictated that they made reckless investments in very early-stage ventures mostly doomed to fail. Deductions like this are problematic because early-stage venture investing does not happen in an efficient market. The distribution of returns from the different U.S. Only they’re not. and the U.K.,

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. free, distributed source code control management system. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. Founder Equity Issues. Venture Hacks equity section. Legal, Equity, etc.

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VentureGeeks Unveils Pre-Seed Investments in Five Israeli Startups

VC Cafe

We wrote about the VentureGeeks incubator on VC Cafe a few months ago, and its plans to set up a $2 million early stage fund making pre-seed investments. The cost for the startups is 10% of their equity, which is taken by the fund GeekVentures I as payment. They plan to scale by using ecommerce aggregators as affiliates.