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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. See Where Are the Deals?!:

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. See Where Are the Deals?!:

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. “Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. Investors don’t want to be too restrictive and miss out on a deal. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . Most LPs we speak with agree. .

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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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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

David Teten

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 4) Manage deal flow. 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc

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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Kapor Capital’s expansive portfolio includes Bit.ly Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000. He also sits on the board of the Mozilla Foundation and created Second Life.

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How I Raised A $1.5M Seed Round in Austin

Austin Startup

Recently I was fortunate enough to have raised a seed funding round from a fantastic group of investors for my pre-product, pre-revenue B2B SaaS startup here in Austin, Texas. million round in SaaS management tool Meta SaaS Raising the round was a full-time job for four months. Mark Cuban leads $1.5 Just move on. Remember that.

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