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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. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital. 6) Negotiate deal.

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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. They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. <$50K in aggregate. Pooled resources or Limited Partners.

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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. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.). Because you have multiple forces at work. Volume has no doubt picked up at active firms. So eventually the money has to start flowing.

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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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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. Tom’s article notes two caveats which I suspect are responsible for some of the fuzziness regarding correlations between fund size and performance.

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

David Teten

Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Venture Associate at Quake Capital Partners in New York City, describes their deal sourcing approach as follows: “We use a new Web Interface to collect information from our applicants in a standardized manner. We store it in a logically indexed manner and apply Predictive Analytics on companies’ metadata.