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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive. On Copper (our deal board), a due date of two business days is automatically set for us to review the opportunity. 6) Due diligence. 5) Manage deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive. On Copper (our deal board), a due date of two business days is automatically set for us to review the opportunity. 6) Due diligence. 5) Manage deal flow.

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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A Visit With the European Startup Community

Gust

On Wednesday, April 18th, I gave a keynote speech on US Startup Valuation Trends for the 1st Irish Angel Meetup. In Moscow, we attended the twelfth annual Congress of the European Business Angel Network , held April 23-24, at the Digital October technology entrepreneurship center.

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

I was an early user of Quora and like all new technologies they take a bit of playing with them for a while, discussing them with others and reflecting on them to let them sink in. I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does.