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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. The most visible evidence of the trend towards automation is an increasing number of engineers working at venture capital and private equity funds.

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Understanding Changes in the Software & Venture Capital Industries

Both Sides of the Table

In this three-part series I will explore the ways that the Venture Capital industry has changed over the past 5 years that I would argue are a direct result of changes in the software industry, not the other way around. So it’s unsurprising that typical “A rounds&# of venture capital were $5-10 million.

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Venture Capital Superheroes

David Teten

In fact, I recently had dinner with a well-known VC who said that he was surprised to see the CB Insights database includes investments his firm has made in stealth companies which haven’t even been announced yet. Fred Wilson wrote about a similar dynamic at Union Square Ventures. . What worries you in tech?

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A digital goodie bag

VC Cafe

You may have stumbled on LinkedIn posts enticing people (mainly startup founders) to leave a comment if they would like to get a copy of a document/list/database. Venture capital. While some things change slowly, maintaining the list current proved tricky as time went by. Hope you find them helpful. ? Online education.

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How VCs Can Accelerate Portfolio Company Returns

David Teten

Best Practices in Venture Capital Portfolio Company Value Creation. Lowering that failure rate would be highly impactful on venture capitalist returns, if we could figure out how to do it. Koen, Gyorgy, and Adham are all Columbia Business School MBA 2012 students and former consultants with McKinsey and BCG.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

All deals – especially (but not only) those that got venture funded. In LA we have www.socaltech.com but in every market there’s some sort of database. There’s obviously things like www.crunchbase.com and Venture Source, Venture Wire and many others. If you raise $250k at a $750k valuation the same goes.

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This Week in VC with Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners

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Our guest this week on #TWiVC was Dana Settle , partner at Greycroft Partners , a venture capital firm with offices in New York and Los Angeles. Current round: $35mm in Series C (extension of Series B at higher valuation) from General Atlantic, Matrix Partners. Read more: TechCrunch , Reg Form D , WSJ interview w/ Susan Lyne.

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