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

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 4) Manage deal flow.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

It had a good mix of viewpoints with east ( James Geshwiler, Common Angels ) and west coast (yours truly) angels, early stage venture capitalist ( Jason Mendelson, Foundry Group ), and a couple of attorneys ( Dan Hansen and Mario Rosati ). Email This BlogThis! Steve Bennet. at 11:15 AM. Share to Twitter Share to Facebook.

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

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Another provider which identifies email addresses of strangers is Contactout.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Email This BlogThis! Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? My facebook can beat up your facebook. See you next time. Steve Bennet. at 4:21 PM.

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4 Considerations for Expanding Your Startup to International Markets

mashable.com

Building and engaging a community through online forums and email lists is often a common first step. Now more than ever, social media channels are increasingly the norm, so further investing in community activities like meet-ups and workshops can add a face-to-face element — one that is extremely valuable.

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ProfessorVC: Angie's List or AngelList?

Professor VC

Whether you buy this or not for public equities, the market for early stage private companies has always been wildly inefficient. Email This BlogThis! Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? Of course, if you are looking for a plumber, Angies list would be better.

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account. Email This BlogThis! Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"?