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Remind Me Why I Love You? (Why “In Person” is Everything)

Both Sides of the Table

You race back to the office to tell everybody how well it went and you wait for the follow-up call to have a partners’ meeting or talk about term sheets or at least dip into due diligence. especially about churn rates and your high CACs last quarter relative to the previous year. What do I do now? Was that a blip?

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So What is The Right Level of Burn Rate for a Startup These Days?

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When you raise larger rounds there is more “due diligence,” which includes: calling customers, looking at financial metrics, doing cohort analysis (looking for trends like changes in churn rates), evaluating competitor positioning and understanding more of the competency of your executive team.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 6) Due diligence. I personally use Salesforce.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

” Our featured speaker was Caroline Cummings, the VP of Business Development at Palo Alto Software. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. You have to do some due diligence.