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

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence.

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Startups: It’s not Thelma & Louise

Austin Startup

Because we will not be maintaining the integrity of the data after June 28th, we will be discounting the search and account features after that date. Since launching the site last year, we’ve had the privilege of helping more than 7,500 folks with their most important search. wasn’t readily available in Austin. (We

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. But beyond that, not much. 6) Negotiate deal.