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

David Teten

Keren Moynihan, CEO, Boss Insights , said, “Last week at an industry function, we asked a high rolling VC, “how’s your lead gen?” So we probed, ‘Oh, so you don’t need a qualified lead generation tool then?’ She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ Her answer? ‘I I chose my words very carefully. I said we had a lot of deal flow.

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Pre-seed is the new seed

Hippoland

Or even doing pre-sales or lead generation well before having a product. I have a few founders I’ve backed who are just on the border of post-seed / series A metrics and are able to get term sheets from both series A and post-seed investors. It could be building an early version of the product.

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Pre-seed is the new seed

Hippoland

Or even doing pre-sales or lead generation well before having a product. I have a few founders I’ve backed who are just on the border of post-seed / series A metrics and are able to get term sheets from both series A and post-seed investors. It could be building an early version of the product.