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

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Sources like Crunchbase , Angel List , and Seed Invest even give this data away for free or very low cost. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

What would the VC corollary to Touched by an Angel, be. I was on a panel earlier this week with several other investors from Angel Groups in the Valley. One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. See you next time.

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Where would I go to invest in startups or emerging companies?

Gust

Subject to specific rules and dollar limits (10% of your income in aggregate for all investments per year, etc.) you will be able to invest online, just as easily as buying books from Amazon. original post can be found on Quora @ [link] *.

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

David Teten

A major angel group uses Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g.,

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

But, the traditional wealth management industry does not make fees on angel investing, so it’s an underpublicized opportunity. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. Over the past decade, angels have averaged more than $20 billion annually in the US.