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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

For instance, tracking ‘months-of-runway’ combined with the month-over-month change to that metric allows us to rapidly identify companies that may be distressed. A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation . Disadvantages. In-house, brand-name guru. In-house functional specialists. Numerous VCs.

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

David Teten

Keren Moynihan, CEO, Boss Insights , said, “Last week at an industry function, we asked a high rolling VC, “how’s your lead gen?” She answered, ‘We see a lot of deals.’ So we probed, ‘Oh, so you don’t need a qualified lead generation tool then?’ I said we had a lot of deal flow. Her answer? ‘I