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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

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How to Get Superior Returns in Venture Capital

David Teten

Many VCs focus on specific verticals, usually based on the sector in which a VC initially made her reputation. That said, one limitation in early-stage investing particularly is that 2022’s growth sectors probably don’t fit neatly into a vertical we can define today. What VCs most typically talk about are: – Industry expertise.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. The most visible evidence of the trend towards automation is an increasing number of engineers working at venture capital and private equity funds. 6) Negotiate deal.

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“I can tell if a podcast is going to stink beforehand if the person has a PR person asking for questions.” Digiday’s Brian Morrissey on Digital Media, VC and Light at the End of the Tunnel.

Hunter Walker

Brian Morrissey: Digiday is a media brand focused on the changing nature of the media and marketing businesses as they collide with digital technology. We’ve since expanded under Digiday Media to have other brands. HW: Your Digiday podcast is one of my favorite in the media industry. That’s a red flag.

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SuperMac War Story 6: Building The Killer Team – Mission, Intent.

Steve Blank

We will accomplish this through demand-creation activities (advertising, PR, tradeshows, seminars, web sites, etc.), The same was true for PR. And the results weren’t the traditional PR metrics of number of articles or inches of ink. The Potrero benchmark strategy was one component of this creating end user demand through PR.)

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SuperMac War Story 9: Sales, Not Awards « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

New Century, New Channels For many of you reading this, boxes sitting on a retail shelf may seem hopelessly outdated, but the same marketing lessons hold for “award winning&# web sites or social media. Or by a VP of Marketing who talks “branding&# , SEO/SEM, PR agency, etc. Worry about the sales results.

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Cracking The Code: Getting through the downturn: a few thoughts.

Cracking the Code

Rethink vertical segmentation: Healthcare? Review your marketing media allocation: offline media prices will go down and could generate attractive ROI, tradeshows might have less impact due to travel restrictions… G&A Manage your DSOs tightly – they will go up! Venture Capital. (3). internet. (6).