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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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

ConversionXL

Crappy or outdated technology. Review – Trust Your Users (Any marginal change you make, you don’t know if it’s good or bad.). Reverse engineer lifetime value study. Test functionality before you try to harvest fruits. Lincoln Murphy: Marketing Success: Building a Customer-Centric Growth Engine. LTV increase?