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

David Teten

“Tech” means B2B Saas/Fintech or Consumer apps. Investors don’t want to be too restrictive and miss out on a deal. However, we’d argue that for most smaller managers who are not brand names, it’s better to be highly identified in your niche than being a generalist. Most LPs we speak with agree. .

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

The problem is that this is longer than the average economic cycle , which means you need to be able to manage in good times and bad. It was an investment management class. I still love B2B application. Bad times often require more capital but ironically this is when capital is dried up. People buy at the wrong times.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. Certainly it is a negative to not have acquired the basic skills of product management. The top tier funds see almost all of the best deals. Ability” vs. “Knowledge”.

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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 major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. 4) Manage deal flow.

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5 Mobile Optimization Tactics for B2B SaaS Sites

ConversionXL

Though the topic of mobile conversion rates of ecommerce websites is often broaches, it’s rare we talk about SaaS or B2B. The Mobile Website Design Problem (B2B Saas Edition). According to a comScore white paper , all internet traffic growth came from mobile last year. 5 Mobile Website Design Tactics for B2B SaaS.

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5 Mobile Optimization Tactics for B2B SaaS Sites

ConversionXL

Though the topic of mobile conversion rates of ecommerce websites is often broaches, it’s rare we talk about SaaS or B2B. The Mobile Website Design Problem (B2B Saas Edition). According to a comScore white paper , all internet traffic growth came from mobile last year. 5 Mobile Website Design Tactics for B2B SaaS.

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