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On Funding?—?The Denominator Effect

Both Sides of the Table

And then add on to this people who worked at McKinsey, BCG, Bain, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and what you’ll have is not only really ambitious young talent but also people great at doing presentation decks filled with data and charts and who have perfected the art of narrative storytelling through data and forecasts.

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

David Teten

Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 4) Manage deal flow. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel.

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Love/Hate Business Plan Competitions

Steve Blank

In exchange, these VCs/companies get early looks at new deal flow and offer aspiring entrepreneurs feedback and advice on their business plan. For those of you who don’t know, business plan competitions are held by universities who get their students to enter and compete to see who has the best business idea.

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Ten Takeaways from Deloitte’s 2010 Israel VC Indicator Survey

VC Cafe

Only 60% of respondents claimed deal flow activity will increase, in comparison to 72% in previous quarter. Nearly half of respondents (45%) forecast the Gaza conflict to have negative affects on venture capital fund raising. 77% of venture capitalists believe the gap is in Seed and First Round. fund raising in Israel.