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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

That means they spend a lot less time actively seeking out new deals than they do responding to inbound deal flow. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow. Simply enter their name and email, write a good cover letter, and click the share button.

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The Truth About Investor Updates

Haystack

I spend a good deal of time sharing deal flow up and downstream with Series A and B investors, and when they ask me about opportunities coming down the pipeline in 6-12 months, I usually share what I’ve been told from the founders themselves over email or phone — I become their subtle pitch man.

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

David Teten

Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 4) Manage deal flow. Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge. She is a model for us all! .

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5 Flocks Of Investors Looking For An Enticing Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes.

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

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ Her answer? ‘I

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Finding The Right Angel Investor For Your New Venture

Startup Professionals Musings

It won’t help your case or your workload to do an email blast and follow-up with 250,000 members around the world. This software platform is used by many local angel organizations for managing deal flow. They probably won’t respond well to high pressure sales tactics, information overload, or bribes.

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ProfessorVC: Would a Dart Board Provide better VC Returns?

Professor VC

I know there are at least a few of you as I received several emails this week along the lines of "no new posts since November???" Rather than going through their networks or targeting specific sectors for deal flow, they are going to rely on an algorithm to select companies. Email This BlogThis! Well, Im back.