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15 Steps to Fundraising for Your New Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

In particular, highlight the metrics by which you measured your past activities: size of exit, number of people you managed, $ budget you were responsible for, etc. These are the major tools that institutions and press use to look at the industry. . Set up a Data Room, with a filled-out Due Diligence Questionnaire (“DDQ”).

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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. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G. 4) Originate investments.

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

David Teten

An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. Over the past few decades, better metrics became available, and investors could take a more analytical, data-driven approach. ” Historically, investing was a manual, artisan process. 9% (1 / 12).

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Looking Back On Our First Couple Years at NextView

Rob Go

Late last week, I wanted to take a step back and review what has transpired the last two years. OUR PORTFOLIO. I’ve done little portfolio overviews from time to time. In over half of our portfolio companies, we have invested pre-product. But we feel pretty good about the progress of the portfolio so far.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Looking ahead at the next decade I am excited by what I believe will be viewed as one of the best and most rational investment periods for venture capital due to seven discrete factors: 1. If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry.