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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Stanford List of Venture Capital and Private Equity Sources.

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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

To an entrepreneur, being asked to join a venture firm with an Entrepreneur-in-Residence title means you have been tapped on the shoulder by the VC gods. The CDROM content business in the early 1990’s was one of the many of the long line of venture capital fads. Lots of ideas sound exciting because people are clueless.

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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

Steve my name is Donald xx, and I’m the head of external affairs of the CIA’s venture capital firm and we’d like you to keynote our conference.” So I gave my “ The Secret History of Silicon Valley ” talk as the keynote to the CIA’s venture capital conference. Do you mean the Culinary Institute of America?

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

million of it by the time they dissolved their partnership in 1968 – they returned $90 million to their limited partners – a 54% compound growth rate. A wave of silicon innovation was about to meet a pile of risk capital. More on this in the next post.