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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. A nalysis – One of the luxuries of being a VC is that we have a larger data set than most entrepreneurs of performance. Ethics Policy, Expenses policy). RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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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. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital. 3) Originate investments.

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

www.xconomy.com

Amazingly, nobody has aggregated this data before,” says Coats, who was previously a managing partner at San Diego’s Hamilton Bioventures. As part of their decision, Correlation also tells startups up front how much capital will be reserved for follow-on investments—and the firm’s partners won’t take a board seat. “We

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Investor Nomenclature and the Venture Spiral

K9 Ventures

This is probably the very first group that an entrepreneur who is starting out may approach for some funding for his or her idea. They are still individual investors, they invest on a full-time basis as professionals, but they have funds with Limited Partners. <$50K in aggregate. Pooled resources or Limited Partners.

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

Both Sides of the Table

This post highlights some of the reasons why the market is moving again and what entrepreneurs should do about this. 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. Twitter, FriendFeed and other real-time “feeds”.).

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

David Teten

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners.

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

David Teten

At Top Tier, we have been continuously refining our database and analytics engine, and we use it and other software mentioned in this article to make better decisions, spot trends, and stay in front of targeted venture capitalists and entrepreneurs. How do funds use tech to monitor and report investments?