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

David Teten

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. 2) Raise capital.

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Four Building Blocks for the New “Second Industrial Revolution”

Rob Go

There is a dark cloud over the internet sector due to the weak performance of the Facebook IPO. But a lot of entrepreneurs and investors were hoping for a really strong showing to drive more liquidity in the market and continue the surge in hype around internet companies (both start-ups and later stage companies).

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Lessons From Conducting A Webinar For Our Business

YoungUpstarts

The essential takeaway from our experience was that if you are in the B2B space and do not do webinars, you are missing out on something really big. This helps establish a more professional setup – one that is ideal for reaching out to B2B prospects. Having said that, we also committed quite a few mistakes during the process.

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Top 5 Live Streaming Software Solutions

The Startup Magazine

We can get evidence in the stats that say, “ Videos drive two-thirds of the whole internet traffic and is anticipated to grow to about 82% by 2020”. With more and more businesses realizing videos for marketing and brand education, 73% of B2B organizations say they have received a positive ROI after using video marketing.

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Ten million users is the new one million users

cdixon.org

Entrepreneurs and investors have been enamored with consumer internet startups for the last few years. Some observations: - Thousands of early-stage consumer web/mobile companies were started and funded in last 24 months. Internet users have tens of thousands of services/apps to choose from but limited time and attention. .

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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. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. 11) Exit .

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A primer on convertible notes, convertible securities, and equity

Hippoland

And as you raise money at later stages, you will most likely be raising equity rounds. No longer do you need to build a lot of tools – there are so many B2B SaaS companies and infrastructure companies that do all of this for you. There are a lot of convertible note templates on the internet.) It’s cheap.