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Where are the Deals? How VCs Identify the Next Generation of Startups

David Teten

Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts. Specialty tools like Angel List , Gust , SeedInvest , and OurCrowd are emerging as potentially significant tools for sourcing early-stage investments. I’m looking forward to seeing how they evolve. May 3, 2009.

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

David Teten

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Later stage investors are using private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Exit Investments”.

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What Is Venture Debt and How Should Startups Use It?

View from Seed

NVV: Let’s talk about the seed stage specifically. With venture debt as a source of low-cost capital to fuel growth or buy time during later stages, should a founder approach their fundraising from VCs any differently today ? We’d then put together a proposal that would spell out all the mechanics, including the pricing.

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

David Teten

Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. Later stage investors are using for sourcing private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Step 11: Exit”. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate. 475 of those have been formed in the last 5 years, according to Global Corporate Venturing. They invest alongside financial VCs. Some corporate funds now lead rounds. Last year, corporate venture groups deployed $5.4

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Texas Startup Manifesto 2.0

Austin Startup

Or are they running to a fresh perspective, a massive talent pool, and an innovation culture that balances social impact with global domination? At the same time, early-stage companies are thinking beyond the high prices of Silicon Valley to put down roots and find financing and growth partners. Was this going to happen anyway?

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