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Supporting Grid110 – South LA

Feld Thoughts

” I knew Austin from his time at TenOneTen Ventures (we are an LP) and I reconnected with him when he joined the Kauffman Fellows Program (Class 25). Over 90% of the selected companies are led by Black and Latinx founders, and the majority of founders are women.

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Off to the Races with Team Nextview

View from Seed

I’ve spent over a decade investing in consumer and B2B companies that do things like expand access to reproductive care and childcare , support the circular economy , enable more seamless payments for small businesses and individuals, rethink mindfulness for the modern world , and champion learners from the classroom to the metaverse.

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

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. 1) Market fund. Pitchbot.vc 3) Originate investments.

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2021 Predictions

Eric Friedman

With the stock price off since IPO and the need to “rollup” enterprise chat + video MSFT takes a swing at solving a huge b2b problem with a startup friendly platform. The 13 year bull run ends, and we go into a decline/recession scenario. Money printer goes brrrrr 7/ Microsoft buys Slack. No, but Salesforce bought slack. No, but close.

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

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. 1) Manage the firm . 3) Raise capital.

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

(co-written with Stephane Nasser , co-founder of OpenVC , an open-source initiative to collect and analyze all VC theses.). OpenVC is a new, open-source initiative to collect and analyze all publicly available VC theses, to help founders more efficiently find the right investors, and vice-versa. of venture capital deals.