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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.

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25 Entrepreneurs Explain Their Major Accomplishments in 2019

Hearpreneur

This focus has helped me recruit the best and the brightest in the field, build a world-class operation, and most of all, with all the knowledge in a specific vertical, help build a leading agency for food & beverage manufacturers that are looking to build a direct to consumer channel. Photo Credit: Matt Daigle.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Top 10 Vertical and Social Web Trends For The Decade

ReadWriteStart

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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Founder Interview: Richard Lavina Innovating Accounting Services with Taxfyle

The Startup Magazine

Ricky and his team set out in 2015 to modernize accounting and have transformed Taxfyle over the years into a venture-backed company that serves tens of thousands of taxpayers each year, hundreds of CPA firms around the United States, and counts a Big Four accounting firm and international accounting corporations among its enterprise clientele.

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East meets West: Why Chinese app developers are targeting US smartphone owners

The Next Web

Jenny Lee, a partner at venture capital firm GGV Capital which has a presence in both the US and China, also observes that in the US, the willingness to pay for an app is pretty high — especially for a utility tool, which is what CooTek’s TouchPal X Keyboard essentially is. But on the other hand they have more time.

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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. . 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

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Durant Versus Sloan – Part 1

Steve Blank

If you look around the United States it’s hard to avoid Sloan. The guy who replaced him invented the idea of the modern corporation. Understanding the future of entrepreneurship may depend on understanding the contribution each of them made in the past. automotive industry grew to become one of the drivers of the global economy.