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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc.

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How to Find a Market? Use Jobs-To-Be-Done as the Front End of Customer Discovery

Steve Blank

Modern entrepreneurship began at the turn of the 21 st century with the observation that startups aren’t smaller versions of large companies – large companies at their core execute known business models, while startups search for scalable business models. The Market Definition Canvas works for both B2C and B2B applications.

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Why Investing in the Everyday Economy Isn’t Just a Consumer Strategy

View from Seed

We dove deep into how this investment thesis extends to major verticals of consumer spending like entertainment , clothing , and home. And in the entertainment category, our portfolio company TripleLift provides monetization for online publishers through native ad technology. BookBub ), hybrid B2C/B2B2C models (e.g.

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Introducing NextView III and Our Focus on the Everyday Economy

View from Seed

Others take bets on certain verticals or business models, such as marketplaces, SaaS, or enterprise technology. Innovation in search, social, broadband, and mobile & cloud hasn’t come to an end. While our lens on the Everyday Economy is focused on our actions as individuals, it’s not constrained to B2C companies.

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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. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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Simple But Powerful Tips for Naming Your Business or Startup

The Startup Magazine

Depending on your vertical, total cost of business name change can run into millions of dollars like the attempt to change UTA to TDU. 1) Make it Flexible and Extendable: A good business name should be flexible and extendable: able to accommodate a growing portfolio of additional products, services or territories. Source: Pixabay.

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