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

David Teten

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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Transcript of The Key to Success? Taking Care of Your Community

Duct Tape Marketing

We saw people, they were just running into roadblocks whether it be content development, design, any myriad of subset of that SEO, which of course you’re having a nice focus on custom development. You might want to check out the Duct Tape Marketing consultant network. There’s some congruency here.

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What problems I want to fund and solve?

Hippoland

But, I have done 0 health deals in 2018 (I did 3 in 2017). It also means that you will be tied to horrible health care providers if your employer bought a cheap plan with a limited network. Coming into 2018, because I was/am seeing so many blockchain and health companies, I thought I would fund mostly blockchain and health companies.

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What problems I want to fund and solve?

Hippoland

But, I have done 0 health deals in 2018 (I did 3 in 2017). It also means that you will be tied to horrible health care providers if your employer bought a cheap plan with a limited network. Coming into 2018, because I was/am seeing so many blockchain and health companies, I thought I would fund mostly blockchain and health companies.

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How to Drive Product Growth with Behavioral Personas

ConversionXL

You may be familiar with cohorts based on things like date —all those users who signed up in January 2017, for instance. Talking to Your Customers. Talk to your customers and figure out what your most engaged users seem to value about your product. The primary route we use to make sense of user behavior is behavioral personas.

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