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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. 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.

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

Cracking the Code

So, here is the first edition, including the recent Q4 2009 earnings and the updated 2010 forecast. If we consider that 2009 was probably the worst year in the past 5 years, forecasting the same growth for 2010 is not very encouraging. Labels: SaaS , sales and marketing. All in all, an interesting start for the year! at 7:35 PM.

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Why Crowdfunding is Today's Goldrush

ReadWriteStart

It makes it legal for crowdfunding sites to give actual equity to investors - not just thank-you gifts such as T-shirts and coffee mugs - and it’s expected to draw a vast amount of capital to crowdfunding. In the past couple of weeks alone, two new equity-model crowdfunding sites have gone live, Fundable and CrowdFunder.

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

What are you actually selling and how are you solving a problem (or “need”) for your market? Target Market. If there are multiple market segments for your business, this is where you flesh out the details. Marketing and Sales Plan. How are you going to reach your target market? Target market. Read more ».

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

The average equity fund investor earned a market return of only 4.25%. One are investors in truly new asset classes, e.g., frontier markets like the Pakistani stock market, which really do provide new opportunities for investors to put capital to work. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.

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Out of the Crisis #7, Brian Chesky Part 1: running Airbnb in crisis mode, being multi-stakeholder, and re-founding the company

Startup Lessons Learned

What if you get product market fit beyond your wildest dreams? One by one the markets in which you operate shut down. Brian Chesky : And also humans are not good at forecasting or creating a mental model around something that's never happened before. We got scrutiny within weeks of going into markets when we were little.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter October 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

ISRAEL’S STATISTICS BUREAU FORECASTS 4% GROWTH IN 2010. The Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) forecasts 4% growth for 2010 based on data it accumulated over the first nine months of the year. growth forecast for 2010 exports. For previous editions, click here. The growth figure is largely based on a new 9.1%