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

David Teten

In liquid markets, most of the calories expended on technology and analytics are focused on trade selection, or “ origination ”. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. 2) Market . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. .

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How to Get World Class Experts to Support Your Company

David Teten

I’ve written on the expert network industry a fair amount in the past: see How to Earn More Consulting Revenue from Expert Networks and How Executives Can Work with Private Equity and Venture Capital Portfolio Companies. We’re not mainly for B2B companies or later stage companies or anything like that. We kind of bring it all together.

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time. In over half of our portfolio companies, we have invested pre-product. 9 that are B2B. But we feel pretty good about the progress of the portfolio so far. The VC market is shaping up pretty much as we expected. OUR INDUSTRY.

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What Is NextView’s Focus? Another Stroll Through Our Portfolio

Rob Go

This is why I’ve made a habit of profiling our portfolio quantitatively and why we write summaries announcing pretty much all of our new investments. So, here is our annual quantitative summary of our portfolio. A Stroll Through Our Portfolio. Type of Product and Business: Consumer vs. B2B. This isn’t a quota.

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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. That summary provided a very high-level overview of what we were doing, who we were, and a bit more about the market. Mark Cuban leads $1.5 Remember that.

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