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

David Teten

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Access to the corporate investor’s ecosystem can open up great opportunities from technology validation to customer and partner development. It can help develop applications for the startup’s technology in its early days. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries.

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The “reverse” pitch: Who should you have on your cap table?

Version One Ventures

Some of the best later-stage investors walk founders through an institutionalized “reverse” pitch. Are you looking for help and expertise in hiring, product strategy, customer development, fundraising, coaching, therapy, etc.? In the meantime, we’d love to hear how you decided on your investor syndicate?