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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly. Pitchbot.vc

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

David Teten

But for B2B sales, meeting people in person is often mandatory. In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. This is hosted by NFX.

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How to Radically Stand Out with Brand Marketing

ConversionXL

If you spam the non-buyers with sales CTAs, you’ll only annoy them. Can you capture more brand equity by executing marketing tactics in new or better ways? They show original sales intelligence data and they post relatable memes. Here’s another great B2C example from consumer goods brand YETI. Which are they neglecting?

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How Typeform Stands Out In A Crowded Market

Duct Tape Marketing

John Jantsch (01:11): So that's a lot in the CMOs job, particularly diversity, equity, inclusion. If you're moving out of brick and mortar into online, more and more businesses, whether you're B2B or you're b2c, are realizing that digital is a primary channel or at least equal. So Carrie, welcome to the show. Glad to be here, John.

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Helpful Money Metrics to Help Monitor The Health of Your Company

Mike Michalowicz

Profit Margin = Net Income/Sales. If you divide income after expenses by total sales, you get an idea of what percentage of every dollar a company keeps – basically, the profitability of a company. AR Turnover Ratio = Sales/Average Accounts Receivable. Debt To Equity Ratio = Total Liabilities/Total Stockholder’s Equity.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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Nailing go-to-market strategy

The Equity Kicker

It’s first use is for founders to work out whether they should have a sales intensive or marketing intensive go-to-market strategy. It’s an obvious thing to say, but unless a business can find a successful go-to-market strategy, sales will be limited and it won’t succeed.