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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.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process.

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Understanding the Dreaded Investor Due Diligence

Startup Professionals Musings

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process.

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Startup Due Diligence Is Not a Mysterious Black Art

Gust

After you have successfully attracted angels or venture capital with your business case, your million dollar product idea, and you have a signed term sheet, there is still one more hurdle to overcome before investors write the check. Product or service readiness. This is the dreaded “due diligence” process.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Venture Capital Cafe > Startup Resources (Updated Mar 2013). Amazon Web Services. Customer service. Private beta invitations & management: Prefinery. Cloudware City - online app store for subscription services. Cloud Services and Tools. Amazon Web Services â?? About VC Cafe. Domains.Co.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. Ifyour competitors offer employees stock options that might make themrich, while you make it clear you plan to stay private, yourcompetitors will get the best people. No, not generally.A company has to be more than small and newly founded to be astartup.

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

Once the $1 million revenue milestone is crossed, entrepreneurs find it easier to find additional customers, manage working capital, and access funding, whether it is credit or equity. The latter is the domain of venture capital, but the former is what we need to build the foundation for Capitalism 2.0