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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And Boston VC firm General Catalyst played a big hand in getting the company off the ground by bringing the co-founders together, as well as providing deep expertise in the travel industry and Kayak’s initial funding. Kayak Software Corporation. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011.