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The Opportunity / Growth Fund Trend

Feld Thoughts

Others had separate early stage funds and late stage funds, often with separate teams and economics (e.g. USV has done a magnificent job of investing in later stage rounds of their existing portfolio companies as well as later stage rounds of companies that fit tightly within their investment thesis.

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As a new independent angel investor, how will I find new companies to invest in?

Gust

The two sites you mentioned are both secondary listing services, for later stage companies. Most are somewhere in between, focusing primarily on early-stage, high-growth companies with scalable business models. These are typically Internet-enabled, or consumer products, or medical devices.

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The Opportunity / Growth Fund Trend

Feld Thoughts

Others had separate early stage funds and late stage funds, often with separate teams and economics (e.g. USV has done a magnificent job of investing in later stage rounds of their existing portfolio companies as well as later stage rounds of companies that fit tightly within their investment thesis.

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

David Teten

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. 2) Raise capital.

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

David Teten

Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. 11) Exit .

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.) Austin-based BigCommerce, which went public last year, was also a recent success story for our growth stage fund, Revolution Growth. all Bay Area firms?—?

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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts. Some VCs monitor Internet traffic reports or job boards to see which companies are growing. I’m looking forward to seeing how they evolve.