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

David Teten

Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. 4) Manage deal flow.

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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.

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Lean Business Planning with Tim Berry [VIDEO]

Up and Running

We recently had Tim Berry, Palo Alto Software founder and business planning expert, present our Bplans audience with his latest advice on lean business planning. Having said that, if you are, what I see in our group is the lean business plan is initially in the background, it’s your screenplay for your movie. This is Sabrina.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Infact, the more prominent the angel, the less likely they are tobelong to a group. Deal terms with angels vary a lot.

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

Up and Running

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. Pretend that you are the investor.

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How Venture Capitalists and Government Can Promote Entrepreneurship

David Teten

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. Just like me, they’re distressed about the poor economy and jobs situation.

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ESG in Venture Capital: Interview with Blue Future Partners (VC Fund of Funds)

David Teten

One of the impact initiatives I’m proudest of is founding Harvard Business School Alumni Angels of New York , a nonprofit and now the East Coast’s largest angel group. When we launched in 2010, I saw a white space: a burgeoning NY tech ecosystem, but only one angel group regularly writing checks.