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What is CRM? Customer Relationship Management Explained

Up and Running

It’s a system that can help you build a database of customer information, stay better connected to customers, and streamline your overall processes. This typically involves a CRM system or tool that helps automate and aggregate various customer touchpoints. Are they direct partners with dedicated support?

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. We think coaching is a key lever for doing this, with our own team or through outside partners. – A tool to automatically update all databases (Crunchbase, CB Insights, etc.)

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5 Secrets To Generating Revenue During COVID-19

YoungUpstarts

GovSpend is offering a free Vendor Registry that allows companies with products or services specifically needed to address the COVID-19 crisis to partner directly with the agencies that need them. One of the most useful sets of data is the government purchase order data aggregated in an online database by GovSpend. .

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

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups.

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

David Teten

PEVCTech is partnering with Blue Future Partners to run the first large-scale survey of VCs’ technology stack. Johann Kratzer of Blue Future Partners , a fund of funds, observed, “The majority of the hundreds of funds we’ve diligenced rely predominantly on their relationships to source deals. Greylock Partners.

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Conference Notes on Sourcing Deal Flow & Developing New Business for Private Equity

David Teten

High Road Capital Partners Deal Sourcing Keynote. Fitzsimmons, High Road Capital Partners. Deal aggregation websites Increasing in popularity, trying to increase market efficiency. Build and maintain large email database. Prestegaard, High Road Capital Partners. Fitzsimmons, High Road Capital Partners.

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

(written by Philipp von dem Knesebeck , Managing Partner, Blue Future Partners (bluefp.com, @bluefutureteam ), and David Teten ). Based on this paper, Blue Future Partners and PEVCTech recently completed a large-scale survey to find out which tools are most commonly used by venture capital firms.