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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.”. 6) Negotiate deal.

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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. Content is a “hits driven business” and therefore you can only invest in platforms not media.

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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

In my view the terminology being used for early stage investors by the press and the media is not as clear as it should be. This in theory is very similar to the behavior of institutional investors, however, there is one big difference. <$50K in aggregate. Lots, 20-100. 1-2 per partner. Individual. Partnership.

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

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. 1) Industry reports. 7) Mattermark. 8)Clarity.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

On March 26, SoFi announced that “it will be offering its members (at least those with $3K in their account) the ability to invest in IPOs for companies going public, an investment opportunity that has traditionally been reserved for large institutional investors or ultra-high-net-worth individuals.” How much “say” do the issuers have?

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