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

David Teten

A more efficient approach is to mine the data exhaust from the Limited Partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. Direct Revenue : The company must have a way of getting direct revenue from its customers (“I deliver value to you, you pay me”). New Technology or New Market : The product must involve some kind of new technology or a new market.

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Announcing K9 Ventures II – A $40M technology-focused micro-VC fund

K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures II will still be syndicating most investments with other seed and angel investors. Direct Revenue : The company must have a way of getting direct revenue from its customers (“I deliver value to you, you pay me”). New Technology or New Market : The product must involve some kind of new technology or a new market.

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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. Says Rohit Bodas, Partner at American Express Ventures , “Our investment strategy does not assume that Amex will want to be the acquirer for any of our portfolio companies.

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

David Teten

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. A more efficient approach to fundraising than haphazard networking is to mine the data exhaust from the limited partner universe to identify those LPs most likely to find your fund attractive, and focus all your energy on them.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Home to over 80 private- and public-sector tenant customers who directly employ about 12,000 people on the campus, activity from Port SA contributes over $5 billion annually to the regional economy. Twenty four are in Dallas and 22 are in Houston.

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

I'm joined by Lerer Hippeau Ventures, Red Sea Ventures, NucleasHG, the founders of Seamless, a host of extremely helpful angels, and a CircleUp syndicate led by my friend Tom Potter, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery. I'm also excited to have shared this opportunity with a fantastic syndicate of investors.