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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. Personal Finance Cross-account visibility and management – Today’s AI products can analyze and move money between accounts – as agents improve, they will make trades across accounts.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

As an agenda for each meeting, I suggest: – How can we most add value, in addition to helping with financing? This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. AskAnything.VC

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

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. The simplest way to track a company’s performance: have them give you access to their internal metrics dashboard. the Untouched Vertical. The VC Software Stack?—?the

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The SMB Guide To CRM In 2019

YoungUpstarts

No doubt you’re thinking about myriad administrative and organizational needs relating to accounting and finance, staffing, your product and service roadmap for the year and more. Since you have access to intelligent information, the question becomes — how will you aggregate and leverage all this data?

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Benchmarking Performance: Your Options, Dos, Don'ts and To-Die-Fors!

Occam's Razor

Outcomes of the conversations with your Finance team and Sr. Conversion rate is one of those metrics that I strongly encourage you only create benchmarks for from your own data. … You can see the wisdom of not just setting a 20% aggregate conversion rate, based on the above benchmarking data. And other such things.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

We could for example, find warning signs in popular literature about e.g. finance suggesting rapid maturation in bond trading. My own metric is that you need experience >= 1.5 A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level. Warning sign?

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

This is also backed by other research findings, such as the International Finance Corporation (IFC) which noted that the impact investing market is “growing and maturing”. In its latest report , the private sector arm of the World Bank Group estimated that in 2019 between $505 billion and $3.5 The generational point is worth lingering on.