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Still growing our team

Version One Ventures

You may recall that we opened a search for an associate last summer. Unfortunately, we didn’t find someone who was the right fit for us – and decided to take a short break from the search. and also has the imagination to picture what the world *could* be with technology. A year ago, we set out to add to our team.

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Ending the Toll Roads to LP Fundraising

This is going to be BIG.

I know how hard it is myself because I used to vet VCs for a living when I was on the insitituional LP side. Sometimes, the family hires some really fantastic people to run the investment of their assets. Angellist, Gust, etc all made searching for and comparing deals much easier.

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How to Scale a Venture Capital (or Private Equity) Fund

David Teten

Among the sites we have found most helpful with practical guides for founders: Biztree , First Search , Foundersuite , Goodwin Founders Workbench , Guides.co , Inc.com , and StartupRocket. . The firm attracts deal flow by promising a decision (positive or negative) in under 2 weeks, with minimal paperwork and without repeating due diligence.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

Larger funds tend to have industry-specialized sourcing, but less so at the smaller funds due to lack of scale Riverside shares deal-based compensation, so that the sourcing team works together and it’s not zero sum in terms of hoarding contacts. Zubin Avari, Charter Oak Equity LP Christopher A. Question : How are you organized?