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

David Teten

EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. With regard to analyzing a given company’s financial model, that is a reasonable stereotype, given that VCs do not typically use financial leverage and financial forecasts of early-stage companies have a very high uncertainty rate.

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These Two Questions Are All You Need To Understand The Next Few Years of Venture & Startups

Hunter Walker

Do you understand your cost structure and can you manage to a forecastable growth rate. It seemed that the outcomes were bigger than we ever anticipated and each vertical could create multiple huge winners because of market size, massive global reach, and so on. What’s the biggest open question for most companies in remaining ‘great?’

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