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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Tim O’Reilly, CEO, O’Reilly Media, argues , “Blitzscaling isn’t really a recipe for success but rather survivorship bias masquerading as a strategy.” Coinvestors: Flexible VC terms have not been standardized, which may make the investment harder to syndicate. as that will determine how easy collection is for the investor.” .

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

David Teten

We gain insight into the management style of portfolio company management by assessing their social media activities and digital exhaust, e.g., I use Fullcontact as my “chief of staff” to brief me on the interests and backgrounds of the people I meet. 6) Negotiate deal. Accompany focuses on this use case.

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

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

I'm joined by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, NucleasHG, the founders of Seamless, a host of extremely helpful angels, and a CircleUp syndicate led by my friend Tom Potter, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. I'm also excited to have shared this opportunity with a fantastic syndicate of investors. That's Ample Hills.

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Venture Outlook 2016

Both Sides of the Table

It’s like blaming the media for incessantly covering Donald Trump and then watching the ratings when Donald Trump is at a debate and being surprised that the media gives him so much coverage. I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. None of these. It’s just a market. Markets are markets.

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