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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

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Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. By the same token, Coats could find no correlation between the hot deals (where investor demand was highest) and the hot outcomes.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

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When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. There is a lot of pent-up demand. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.). Because you have multiple forces at work. Volume has no doubt picked up at active firms.

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

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 3) Raise capital.

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On the Road to Recap:

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Why the Unicorn Financing Market Just Became Dangerous…For All Involved. All Unicorn participants — founders, company employees, venture investors and their limited partners (LPs) — are seeing their fortunes put at risk from the very nature of the Unicorn phenomenon itself. This is uncharted territory.

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Why the LP Outlook is Good for Venture and Startups in 2017–2020

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Every year Upfront Ventures surveys Limited Partners (LPs) who are the main source of capital that invests in VC funds and thus the main source of capital that goes to startups to get an early-warning sense of the year ahead, leaving aside any Black Swans. We’re trying to limit our exposure.”

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