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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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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A founders’ guide to capital raising

NZ Entrepreneur

Capital raising can be challenging and time-consuming, but it forces you to evaluate the real metrics and areas of your business that are often overlooked.” – Bex Rempel, ZeroJet. Again, use this as an opportunity to pique their interest – and ultimately, land follow-up meetings or enter due diligence.

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Opinion: It’s a startup world

NZ Entrepreneur

Both of these liquidity options are about seeing the venture on to its next stage of value creation, while enabling those very early stage investors to recover their capital to deploy in the next generation of startup companies. Take part in startup investment due diligence. This equity will vest over 2-3 years.

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Portfolio Management – Learning from experienced investors

NZ Entrepreneur

The Angel Association of New Zealand ( AANZ ) is co-hosting with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners ( NZGCP ) a series of workshops on early-stage investment. Jason Graham from Movac provided an early-stage venture capital fund perspective, detailing 35 investments made across 5 funds and 22 years.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

I’ve been having discussions with several people recently about the role of the CTO (Chief Technology Officer) in very early stage companies. However, I’ve now begun questioning how and what an early-stage / startup CTO should be. It makes this early stage challenging. How can we address this risk?

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Lead Developer to CTO at a Startup

SoCal CTO

This leads to a set of questions: What is the role of a CTO in the early stages of a company, and does that role change later on as both the company and that individual matures? I've previously addressed the role of a CTO in early-stages in my post Startup CTO or Developer. How will I know when the need has arisen?

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

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. 4) Manage deal flow.