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Requests for Startups in 2024

VC Cafe

In addition, founders thinking about starting a company can be overwhelmed by choice, as there are so many problems to tackle with technology, but it could be comforting to know that investors are interested in those areas in the first place.

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B2B Marketplaces Revisited

Version One Ventures

As are a handful of vertical marketplaces that have emerged over the past few years (e.g. But overall, we’ve yet to see the large-scale success of B2B marketplaces across the full spectrum of verticals. As such, successful B2B marketplaces will do the following well: Aggregate suppliers and provide price transparency.

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Why Consumer Brands Need To Keep An Eye On Their eCommerce Channel

YoungUpstarts

Engaging in effective practices that leverage modern technologies to monitor and control the eCommerce Channel through brand analytics. These technologies present the information you need to know through dashboards and will send you alerts when something is off the mark. The solution? How can brand analytics help?

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

David Teten

This typically includes: Relationships with relevant service providers in your vertical, often with pre-negotiated discounts: coaches, lawyers, accountants, common software vendors, consultants. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

Both Sides of the Table

This was in large part due to the marketing efforts of Jason that created a great top end of the funnel (100+ companies applied) and the herculean efforts of Tyler Crowley who spent days going through all of the submissions and serving up 5 very interesting companies. Tags: Tech Market Analysis VC Industry. Team Pip.io

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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. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.