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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. . The proportion of LPs using technology to manage their portfolios will continue to increase, and GPs unable to provide quality data to LPs will find it increasingly hard to retain and attract LPs.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

Similar to the explosion of seed funds in the past decade, we (and some limited partners too ) believe these Flexible VCs are on the forefront of what will become a major segment of the venture ecosystem. We detail below the major categories of VC: VENTURE CAPITAL TYPOLOGY. FLEXIBLE VC VS. OTHER VENTURE CAPITAL MODELS.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. Distributing content. Kevin has written over 620 syndicated columns).

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. For me, I don’t mind sharing how I think about it.

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

San Antonio has Geekdom with USAA and Port San Antonio with the Air Force Cyber Command; Houston has The Ion with Rice University, Microsoft and NASA and The Cannon distributed across the city; Dallas has Pegasus Park with UT Southwestern and Lyda Hill Philanthropies; and Austin has Capital Factory with the Army Futures Command.

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Announcing NextView Ventures II

Rob Go

For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. 1) How is the portfolio performing? On performance, we are happy with how things are shaping up in our early NextView I portfolio. 2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you? Twitter ).

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

K9 Ventures

Over the the course of three years, K9 Ventures has invested in 18 startups, including CrowdFlower , Twilio , DNAnexus , HighlightCam , CardMunch , Lytro , Zimride , IndexTank , BackType , EasyESI , card.io , Baydin , LucidChart , Torbit , Occipital , TapCanvas , and 3Gear Systems. was acquired by PayPal.