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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives. 5) Manage deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See Beyond the Money: Best Practices of Venture Capitalists in Helping Early-Stage Companies Create Value and It’s the People: Improving Private Equity Portfolio Company Valuations by Working with Operating Executives. 5) Manage deal flow.

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

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda.

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What Does a Demand Generation Manager Do? (And How to Become One)

ConversionXL

The average B2B buyer has 27 brand interactions before deciding. Very few, if any, of these interactions are with a sales rep. Because if people are making up their own minds, without coercion from sales, creating demand is the best way to get them to choose you. DGMs see that demand is maintained throughout the sales cycle.

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Why Your Startup's Name Matters

mashable.com

Naming can be one of the most difficult challenges in the early stages of a startup. Generally speaking, a name is more valuable to a B2C (marketing-driven) company than a B2B (sales-driven) counterpart, so allocate your efforts accordingly. Global Syndication Partners. W3 EDGE Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). What’s the impact for early-stage startups? What’s Your Favorite Future?

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