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The Most Misunderstood Facts About Building a Business on YouTube

Both Sides of the Table

Along with Greycroft, I was the first institutional investor in Maker Studios (sold to Disney for nearly $1 billion) and am still the largest investor in Mitu Network , the largest online video producer of Latino content. You have to have some of your own content formats and not just be an aggregator of talent.

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

Both Sides of the Table

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. I can tell you first hand than bankers are out making road shows to gin up interest in VCs and institutional investors. We’re only in the second inning on mobile.

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

David Teten

Excel and Google simply aren’t going to cut it if you expect to build a high quality institutional investor base.”. Point Nine Capital uses Qwilr to create modern, mobile-native collateral. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. 4) Originate investments. .

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

GLG continued to build it’s expert consulting network in the years to follow to become one of the top primary research tools for institutional investors because they have helped their customers to make things simple quickly. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

If you download their mobile app, Krispy Kreme will give you a free doughnut , McDonald’s will give you a free large fries , and Baskin-Robbins will give you a free scoop of ice cream. On the demand side, the IPO process is limited to a handful of institutional investors and also ignores the vast majority of retail investors.

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