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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. Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund.

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5 Things to Compare When Choosing an eCommerce Platform

Up and Running

You can sell products and services online without fancy face-to-face sales pitches, you don’t have to rent out an expensive physical storefront, and best of all, you can make sales while you sleep! In fact, it’s estimated that online sales will hit $4.8 These links bring shoppers to the product listings.

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Twitter Link Roundup #179 – Small Business, Startups, Innovation, Social Media, Design, Marketing and More

crowdSPRING Blog

Every day on the crowdSPRING Twitter account and on my own Twitter account , I post links to posts or videos I enjoyed reading or viewing. Empower Your Small Business: Steve Jobs on management/leadership, disaster planning, great customer service – [link]. “As a founder, your job isn’t to make a great product.

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Tool and resource list for new founders

The Startup Toolkit

Google Analytics – free and good enough for all your analytics needs. Intercom – tasteful chat and help widgets for your site, plus good automated email triggers. Drip – email courses and signup widgets for your site. Buffer – easier way to run your twitter and facebook accounts.

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The Inside Story of a Small Startup Acquisition (Part 3)

Software By Rob

Every question below has been asked via email, comment or Twitter over the past four weeks. Could you talk a bit about the diligence you did during the acquisition? How long into the discussion before you commenced diligence? Number of new paid accounts per month. Monthly expenses. Number of paying customers.

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

David Teten

High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . 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.

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Webinar Recap: 14 Tips on How to Pitch and Get Funded

Up and Running

Needless to say, the webinar was absolutely packed with great tips on what it takes to pitch your business so that investors take notice. Not only because it’s a product that Bplans and Palo Alto software makes, but because before I joined the company, I used LivePlan to pitch and raise my investment capital. That’s not good.