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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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

And if trouble withinvestors is one of the biggest threats to a startup, managing themis one of the most important skills founders need to learn. Most startups operate close to themargin of failure, and the distraction of having to deal with clientscould be enough to put you over the edge. Apparently our situation was not unusual.