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

David Teten

Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. EShares is an increasingly popular tool in our portfolio for tracking private company cap tables. Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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Deciding What to Decide

Austin Startup

Do you need to pour more dollars into marketing and PR? I’m not talking about general social networking. If you do eventually expose your company to those professionals, all your dumb shareholders will get crushed in the new cap table. Do you presume there’s some price elasticity and decide to try a lower price?

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Quickly Unpacking Visa’s $5.3B Acquisition Of Plaid

Haystack

Plaid is known within the startup and VC community as a strong company, but it is also a relatively quiet company in terms of its own PR and social media chatter. Earlier today, the news leaked that Visa was to acquire fintech startup Plaid for $5.3B. Now it’s scorching.