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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.

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

David Teten

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. 645 Ventures released a cap table simulator to help level the playing field. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. Stage 2: Angel Round While writing the prototype, the group has been traversing theirnetwork of friends in search of angel investors. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time. Any city wherepeople start startups will have one or more of them.