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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. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

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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. VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google.

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

David Teten

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Clint Korver, Partner at Ulu Ventures , remarked: “I’d compare this technology transformation as akin to what happened in public company investing. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Transcript of Advice for Entrepreneurs Who Want to Sell Their Companies

Duct Tape Marketing

John Warrillow: They sure are, and by the way, that’s a typical fishing letter used by either a private equity group or a business broker, as flattering as it can be, it probably doesn’t mean a whole lot. And they typically, in the United States at least, get an SBA Loan, Small Business Administration Loan.

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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

Eric Ries : You're not like a lot of other tech folks. And then suddenly for the first time, this is even before it went to the United States, our growth rate went below 1X. Eric Ries : And pretty unusual among tech platforms, if we're being honest. Now a cynical host would say, "Well that was my money that was due to me."