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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. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting. 7) Negotiate .

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

Steve Blank

Anthony Ulwick and Ted Thayer of Strategyn have a set of unique and valuable insights: Rather than defining markets as existing, adjacent or new markets – or by verticals, technology, demographics, et al. Others define markets around verticals, e.g. the financial services market or the healthcare market.

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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. While our lens on the Everyday Economy is focused on our actions as individuals, it’s not constrained to B2C companies. It’s a question every VC asks themselves and the entrepreneurs they invest in.

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

David Teten

I’ve primarily seen quantitative analytic techniques used in origination , filtering , and in portfolio company recruiting , but technology can be used throughout the nine steps of the private company investing process: The 9 Steps of the Private Company Investing Process. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value. 9% (1 / 12).

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Real Estate Developer Danny Haber Of oWOW Reinvigorates Bay Area

YoungUpstarts

Danny Haber is the founder of oWOW, a B2B and B2C concern which is directly involved in building modular units for resale to property developers, and as new housing for consumers. As a vertically integrated company, oWOW cuts costs which are then passed on in the form of lower rental prices to tenants.

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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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