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

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80). 6) Negotiate deal. .

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

David Teten

I’ve also experimented with using services which are marketplaces between LPs and GPs: CEPRES , DiligenceVault , FundVeil , Harvest Exchange , and Palico. The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

A focus on scientists and engineers. We created an additional Spring section of the class with a focus on commercializing inventions from Stanford’s scientists and engineers. Ended in Week 10 as autonomous button mushroom harvesting. Ended in Week 10 as a B2C platform for scheduling on-demand at-home senior care.

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10 Best Practices for Better B2B Website Experience

ConversionXL

Here are some ideas about of how you can apply 10 Jakob Nielsen Usability Heuristics to lead generation websites in the B2B or high consideration B2C realm, where there isn’t necessarily any transactional functionality, e.g. e-commerce, user registrations, etc. That’s an important distinction. Image Credit.

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Reverse engineer lifetime value study. Test functionality before you try to harvest fruits. Bill Leake: Optimizing for the “Considered Purchase”: What Changes if You’re B2B or Expensive / Long Sales Cycle B2C? Lincoln Murphy: Marketing Success: Building a Customer-Centric Growth Engine. Focus on high LTV impact.