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

David Teten

We use the vendors of PE/VC investing data I list above to track the interests of potential private equity/VC coinvestors, and selectively introduce our companies as I build out a syndicate. . 9) Time, market, and exit investment. ExitRound helps early stage companies identify buyers.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

Since I became an institutional investor, my #1 learning is: this is a highly unusual and somewhat baffling industry. Disruptable Pattern #5: Institutional investors are eager to cut larger checks rather than smaller ones. This is like a chef who likes to buy a whole cow in order to serve a client one hamburger.