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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

That’s going to help you put your financials together, and it’s also going to help because everybody loses customers, so in your model you have to be able to say what the retention rate is of that customer as well, and the churn rate. Then referral rates and opt-out rates. How many people are going to leave?