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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel. This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

First Round Capital’s forum for portfolio executives is a powerful example of a scaleable resource. The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence. This evolves the VC from a server to a router.

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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. She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ 3) Raise capital. Her answer? ‘I

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

David Teten

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 4) Manage deal flow. 6) Negotiate deal.