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8 Tips To Get the Most Out of Your Investors and Board

Both Sides of the Table

Email updates frequently. And as Rob points out – if you email members with short updates more frequently they are more up to speed when you do need them to weigh in. Key point – if your emails are as long as my blog posts you’re forked. Make your emails actionable. ” Or, “I sent u an email.

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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. 9% (1 / 12).

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Announcing Multicoin Capital

Austin Startup

Take a look at some of the emails between us from 2010: We were attending NYU from 2008–2012. We invest in protocols that meet our quantitative and qualitative metrics. 3) Rebalancing — we rebalance portfolios monthly. We offer investors venture economics with public market liquidity.

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Why Is There So Much Turnover In Venture Capital?

View from Seed

These are literal quotes from social media and email announcements over the past six months from VC Partners moving on to other competitive firms, and, well, just moving on. Calibrated against the firm’s overall velocity (which can vary), this metric is a tell-tale about a Partner’s standing with their peers. Fund cycle.

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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. Another provider which identifies email addresses of strangers is Contactout.

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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For example, one LP told me she prefers customized emails from fund principals, as opposed to a bulk-mailed quarterly update. In particular, highlight the metrics by which you measured your past activities: size of exit, number of people you managed, $ budget you were responsible for, etc. We are using Digify to manage this.

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On Geography

K9 Ventures

” Now that last statement is a little off, since I have a portfolio company in Berkeley and one as far south as San Jose. They wake up earlier than a lot of entrepreneurs do, and, I get a lot of late night emails from VCs working through their email inboxes late at night. I suspect this is also the case for most VCs.