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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. An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. But we’re doing it slowly. 4) Manage deal flow.

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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. . The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. 1) Manage the firm .

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Never Been Easier to Become a VC. Never Been Harder to Stay One.

Hunter Walker

There’s a influx of capital to back new funds: crowding funding via AngelList syndicates. other venture/private equity shops. Third fund is the B round – metrics, results. Sometimes it feels like it’s never been easier to become a VC but never harder to stay one. high net worth individuals.

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Why Twitter is A Media Company ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Compared on typical media metrics of reach and engagement, Facebook stands apart which is why it’s both much larger as a business (30-40X bigger in revenue) and a far more valuable company. The “follow” modality is an interesting one and Twitter was a pioneer here where many others have now followed (sorry, no pun intended).

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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. The human joy per square foot metric is one we'll be tracking closely over time here.

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HBS Alumni Angels NY new chairman: Jason Klein

David Teten

We are also the second or third most active angel group in New York, depending on which metric you use. We saw over time that our investor group, just like Angel List and most other angel groups, was good at syndication and not so good at leading rounds. about 150 for Golden Seeds in New York, the largest group). in 27 companies.

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