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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. (To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.).

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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

If a VC meets with 40 eCommerce companies and has the data room on all of them (downloaded on to his or her system) then when they DO finally dig in on an investment opportunity they can compare information such as CACs, LTVs, churn rates, margins, etc. against a broad range of similar companies.

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The Most Effective Early-Stage Growth Strategies for Emerging Businesses

ReadWriteStart

Limited brand equity. As the name suggests, PPC ads function like traditional digital ads, but you’ll only be responsible for paying for the people who actually click the ad. In some situations, that renders the marketing budget exhausted from the start. Coca-Cola has an astounding amount of flexibility to work with when advertising.

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9 Things That Take a Pitch From Good to Great

Up and Running

Instead, use real names and real customer challenges. Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones , key hires, and so on. 5 percent monthly churn rate.

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9 Things That Take a Pitch From Good To Great

Up and Running

Instead, use real names and real customer challenges. Investors want to hear about your first customers, other investments put into the company (including your own sweat equity), key media placement, signed letters of intent (LOI) to purchase/partner, product and customer milestones, key hires, etc. 0.22% average conversion rate.

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14 Entrepreneurs Describe The BHAGs (Big Hairy Audacious Goals) For Their Business?

Hearpreneur

4- Reduce churn rate by half. My big hairy audacious goal for my business by the end of this year is to reduce our churn rate by half. That may not sound like much, but I’m a massage therapist by profession without even one biology class to my name! Thanks to Scott Cuthbert, Safeopedia.com ! #4-

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How to Write a Business Plan

Up and Running

At the top of the page, right under your business name, include a one-sentence overview of your business that sums up the essence of what you are doing. Unlike [name omitted], LivePlan creates a real business plan, with real insights—not just cookie-cutter, fill-in-the-blank templates.”. One sentence business overview.