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

David Teten

A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. This information is used to automate screening during origination.

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How to Get into Venture Capital - An Update

This is going to be BIG.

Like lefties out of the bullpen, VC firms now have recruiting partners, pr and marketing experts, technologists-in-residents--and USV even has an on board activist. Christina Bechhold didn''t forget that--and so she co-founded her own angel group. They are, however, staffing up with specialists.

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

David Teten

Our proprietary data science tool cumulatively looks at 100+ factors within 6 macroscopic categories: Team, Financial Performance, Customer and PR traction, Industry and Competition, Product and Brand value, Valuation, and Exit probability, to quantify an investment “Merit Score”.

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ProfessorVC: Watch Out for the Red W(h)ine

Professor VC

However, the individual above was adamant that we should have a PR campaign to let the entrepreneurial community know that we dont participate or support this practice. I dont think its time to hang all angel investors in effigy, but remember that due diligence goes two ways. Labels: angel groups , Angel Investors , fundraising.