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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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Does Your New Year’s Resolution Include Reorganizing Your Data? Cross That Off The List Right Now!

YoungUpstarts

Once the search engine finds files that match a search request, the search engine can display the full text of the files with highlighted hits for easy review. An attorney by training, Elizabeth has spent many years in the software industry. What kind of searching can your search engine support?

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). What is striking about these syndicates is that nobody had any meaningful capital, which forced syndication and cooperation. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.”

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

In this article, we’ll explain how to create a marketing playbook to align your teams and boost your sales opportunities. Here’s an example of how Nightwatch uses Asana to organize distribution: The color-coded initials in the right-hand column correspond to different members of the marketing team, so everyone knows their role.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. Between this blog and reviewing applications to Capital Factory I see hundreds of pitches a year.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

– Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. Coinvestors need to figure out ways to prioritize themselves in a VC’s preference stack for syndicating opportunities. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.

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

David Teten

For both origination and due diligence, a host of companies aspire to be the “Bloomberg of private companies”, including CB Insights , Crunchbase , DataFox , FuelUp , fundsUP , Mattermark , Qodeo , Quid , Tracxn , Unomy.com , and Zirra. 5) Due diligence. 4) Manage deal flow. Talent Relationship Management tools (e.g.,