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Why Successful People Focus on the Bottom End of the Funnel

Both Sides of the Table

Today I’d like to give that advice in more tangible terms and with a framework to think about your tasks – the funnel. Sales people (and website customer acquisition folks) all think in terms of funnels and yet non-sales professionals seldom do. Opening is easier than closing.

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

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence.

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

Hunter Walker

Most of this discussion is about ‘playing offense’ — working towards being a good steward of LP capital and the risk/reward associated with VC. As former product managers Satya and I lean towards having frameworks for these sorts of decisions, for both consistency and speed in internal operations.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten

Prasanna Krishnamoorthy, Managing Partner, Upekkha Value SaaS Accelerator, said, “We are the first fund which combines an Angel List rolling fund structure for making LP access widely available, while using the variable VC model of giving founders the option to buy back their equity at a later stage, ensuring founder optionality.

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

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. The private markets are more opaque; they offer less of the hard data critical to a true quant approach. 8) Accelerate portfolio company value.

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The Democratization of Innovation | Yes That is What is Occurring

Campus Entrepreneurship

Participants included, Mark Walsh CEO of Genius Rocket, Mike Lincoln of Cooley LP, Ashish Jaiman of Microsoft, and Edmund Pendleton from MTECH at the University of Maryland. On the framework of the two main enablers we can divide the democratization of software into 3 main categories. 2) Internet accessibility.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Less established regulatory framework. . Zack Mueller, Attorney, Ireland Stapleton Pryor & Pascoe, PC , points that almost “no one, from LPs to entrepreneurs to attorneys, has much experience with these instruments. Doesn’t fit into traditional VC funds. A traditional VC fund may have difficulty investing via this structure.