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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. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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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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Rocket Science 2: Drinking the Kool-Aid

Steve Blank

If you were a “with it” VC you needed to have a “Content&# or “Multimedia&# company in your portfolio to impress your limited partners – educational software companies, game companies, or anything that could be described as content and/or Multimedia. Not all VCs are equal. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print!

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If I Told You I'd Have to Kill You: The Story Behind “The Secret.

Steve Blank

Their VC firm, In-Q-Tel , has been in business for 10 years, and like most VC firms they have an annual event where they show off their new portfolio companies to their limited partners and other VC partners. Stotting consists of fleeing via a jumping behavior that appears to be sub-optimal. To Order Outside of the U.S.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 12: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

million of it by the time they dissolved their partnership in 1968 – they returned $90 million to their limited partners – a 54% compound growth rate. To Order Outside of the U.S. Now In Print! Steve Blanks 30 years of Silicon Valley startup advice.