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

David Teten

I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Many VC funds rely on general-purpose CRM and sales funnel solutions like Copper , Pipedrive, Salesforce , Streak , and ZenDesk. Her answer?

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Series Seed Term Sheet (v 2.0). Series Seed Term Sheet. Ted - I think if you simply remove the spaces in the file names, that should solve the download problems, e.g. the term sheet doc should be renamed to "SeriesSeedTermSheet.doc" Same with the others. :). Series Seed IRA.

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Advice for VCs from a serial founder

Austin Startup

Just don’t do reference checks ever until the term sheet has been issued and you’re almost ready to fund. A good CEO is likely a sales person by nature. Just as you look at deal flow as a funnel, a good CEO disqualifies and moves on. Don’t b t a b r CEOs are sales people. 90% of what we sell is a vision.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Consider it a sales & marketing expense for them. I find that one of my best sources of deal flow is from lawyers. He was the first guy that I saw demystify the legal terms in his term sheet series. Most lawyers that work with startups are willing to work on a deferred payment schedule. And Brad Feld.

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Doing Due Diligence on Potential Investors

View from Seed

You are looking for some combination of domain knowledge, shared ethos, and fit in terms of stage and strategic approach. For example, if are focused on a bottoms-up end user focused GTM strategy, you may not jive well with an investor that is very focused on top-down enterprise sales.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

Both Sides of the Table

I submitted a term sheet to a company yesterday. Yesterday I offered him a term sheet. Marketing = deal flow = share of mind = start of future relationships. I called another about his fund raising (DUDE – you never called me back! ). He turned me down for a job in 2005. That would be pretty lame.

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