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

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. The only problem that faces startup investors now is how to mine this new data layer efficiently to increase returns.”. 4) Manage deal flow. Pitchbot.vc

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.).

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents.

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How to Fine-tune Your Small Business Finances—from Funding to Growth [Webinar Recap]

Up and Running

Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. Two, I’m a small business owner or manager. What I did is I learned the art of a pro forma and the value of a pro forma which basically is a forecast. If you don’t know what your cash flow forecast is, you don’t really understand your capital needs.

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Impact Investing: a time for problems to become opportunities

VC Cafe

According to its survey released this month, the impact investment market has reached $715 billion in 2019, with an estimate of about 1,720 organizations now involved in managing funds for those who want to make a financial return from investments that also have beneficial social or environmental outcomes. “We Source: Fundera .