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

David Teten

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

taketheinterview.com , New York, NY) is a cloud-based solution that streamlines the recruiting process. The national outreach for women and minority entrepreneurs and the selection process was co-managed by the National Association of Investment Companies, the trade association representing private equity firms focused on the middle market.

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Finalist Women and Minority Entrepreneurs Named in VCAP Program

David Teten

taketheinterview.com , New York, NY) is a cloud-based solution that streamlines the recruiting process. The national outreach for women and minority entrepreneurs and the selection process was co-managed by the National Association of Investment Companies, the trade association representing private equity firms focused on the middle market.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies. – Quantitative investing.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

My experience has been this lever brings three benefits: it lowers origination costs because more founders want to raise capital from you; it enhances your leverage in negotiating with the CEO; and it lowers your failure rate. . – Incubating companies. – Quantitative investing.

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You’ll Be Dead Soon – Carpe Diem

Steve Blank

He had an idea for a new class of enterprise software insight-as-a-service based on big data web analytics as a Cloud/SaaS (Software As a Service) application. After a demo and lunch, the VC (who normally did later stage deals) wrote my ex student a check for a seed round. Life couldn’t be better.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. What are some of the unique benefits and constraints from the point of view of a founder? . However, founders shouldn’t take money from corporate VCs because of an exit expectation. Can the founders communicate well?