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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. 3) Raise capital.

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The most important 2021 Predictions in entertainment tech and gaming

VC Cafe

Looking ahead at 2021, with vaccines being rolled out (slowly) in the developed world, it feels like we have a grip on what the year ahead might look like – the new normal. billion gamers worldwide will help the global games market generate revenues of $189.3 In Newzoo’s l atest report , analysts predicted that in 2021, 2.8

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.)

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30 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

After reflecting on the dark forces that confront children in their daily lives, wanting to speak to them about their inner energy and show them how to calm their minds with fun and interesting meditation , I realized that the global platform of a video game would be the best way to reach them and teach them about love and kindness.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Follow Sourcebits on Twitter for recent news and updates.

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

David Teten

produced this analysis of engineering representation within VC firms: Selected VCs with Highest Representation of Developers in Workforce. HOF Capital is currently developing a proprietary sourcing tool to automatically filter for potential deal prospects that fit our criteria. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV).

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Startup IPO Market: A Fickle Mistress ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

In the software an internet space a number of companies obviously had strong public offerings (LinkedIn, Yandex, Pandora, RenRen, et al). What does seem to be true is that the current aversion for new IPOs is mostly due to general lack of appetite for risk at present, rather than something intrinsic to growing tech companies.

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