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

David Teten

Lean Case provides standard business models & metrics, so you can apply a standard approach to business planning, modeling, and profitability tracking. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. Similarly, Corsis uses benchmarking data to understand technology spend patterns.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. So while nearly all VC funds have some addressyou can send your business plan to, VCs privately admit the chanceof getting funding by this route is near zero. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time. Any city wherepeople start startups will have one or more of them.