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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 9) Accelerate portfolio company value. 10) Time, market, and exit investment. See my overview of sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

2) Marketing. See How Private Equity and VC Investors Are Using Social Media. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . 9) Accelerate portfolio company value. 10) Time, market, and exit investment. See my overview of sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. Tech stack.

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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 use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. 2) Market . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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The Consumerization of Business Software ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

I’m not the first person to describe this trend, and my prior background has been primarily as a consumer web guy more than in B2B companies. 3) UI/UX Matters in B2B - For decades, B2B application developers could skimp on innovating in the presentation layer. RentJuice is doing much the same in real estate software.

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Startup Data: 4 Strategies Changing the Speed & Size of Your Series A

View from Seed

Recently, we looked at our own portfolio at NextView Ventures to dig a little deeper on how startups actually raise that next round of financing. Startups with large, lifecycle VCs included in the seed round syndicate did not reach Series A faster than those who did not. in our portfolio. The mean Series A size was $5.2M.

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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. . 1) Market fund.