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Let's Fire Our Customers

Steve Blank

When a startup finds a repeatable sales process and steadily increasing revenue, its investors wants to harvest the rewards and build a culture of “execution.” However, if the founder is still running the company, the last thing he wants is a company complacent with day-to-day execution.

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

David Teten

HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). The VC Software Stack — the Untouched Vertical. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ).