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

David Teten

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. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. But beyond that, not much.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

We have lower AUM, therefore lower management fees. the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. – Aggregation, ranking, and discounts from service providers. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy).

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics.

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

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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. You can’t get paid for sitting on the sidelines – I always tell people that when recessions start managers in large companies get rewarded for cutting costs.

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High Returns On A Small Fund Challenge Low Returns On A Big Fund

David Teten

Firstly, “fund size” can be misleading as some firms prefer to raise a large aggregate amount split between several concurrent funds. Now, it is true, if you search you’ll find another Kaplan study that shows increasing fund size among sequential funds by the same manager has a negative correlation with return.”.

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