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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). As a result, Vin has a great framework for deciding if this is a viable path for your product. So much tactical goodness rolled into one episode.

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Why This Startup Teaches Everyone to Code + a Framework to Find a CTO

View from Seed

In the 10th edition of Traction, we hear the story of Vin Vacanti , co-founder/CEO of Yipit.com (daily deals aggregator) and YipitData (analyzes web data for institutional investors). As a result, Vin has a great framework for deciding if this is a viable path for your product. So much tactical goodness rolled into one episode.

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Finding the Return on Investment of Learning and Development Programs

ReadWriteStart

Do you know which under-the-radar stocks the top hedge funds and institutional investors are investing in right now? Bringing it All Together Arist attaches value to modern key performance indicators like confidence life and employee retention, which can be hard to quantify or consider in a traditional framework.

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How VCs Can Accelerate Portfolio Company Returns

David Teten

This study is effectively a sequel to the study David Teten led with Chris Farmer of General Catalyst on best practices of venture capital and private equity funds in originating new deals , published in Journal of Private Equity , Harvard Business Review , Institutional Investor , etc.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Concerns have been raised around what this reveals about the price discovery process for IPOs and whether retail investors are disadvantaged relative to certain institutional investors that have access to purchase shares at the IPO process. First, as the below chart shows, IPO pops are not a new phenomenon.

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Succeeding in Venture Capital is Mostly About Knowing What to Buy. But When To Sell Matters Also.

Hunter Walker

As an early stage fund, often buying 10–15% of a company during its seed financing, this meant we were often being asked if we wanted to sell portions of our stakes to other approved investors (let alone the random pings from market-makers unaffiliated with the company).

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

David Teten

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Beacon technology system , which automatically outbound-solicits a universe of over 10,000 institutional investors, without requiring LPs to register for an online network of funds. .