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

David Teten

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. Greylock Partners. You can register for the survey here. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce.

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Piggy Rounds Part II: Why Some Large VC Funds Are Doing More Seed Deals

Hunter Walker

These “ piggy rounds ” usually left little room for other institutional investors, in contrast to traditional seed rounds which may include several funds collaborating. Often these funds are attempting to build out a reputation or gain exposure to a new vertical. How This Impacts Homebrew.

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Gazzang Banks $3.5M Series A

Austin Startup

Austin Ventures was the lead institutional investor, accompanied by a group of smaller individual investors. Cloud computing represents a discontinuous innovation that is changing the way enterprises consume and deliver critical business services,” said Thomas Ball, partner at Austin Ventures. “By Gazzang, Inc.,

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

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. Cobalt for General Partners helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy. 1) Manage the firm

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A Companies like Gartner, Forrester or eMarketer regularly produce reports about tech trends and verticals. 1) Industry reports.

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The Seed Rounds They Are a-Changin': Three Shifts We’ve Made to Homebrew Investment Model

Hunter Walker

It’s true that there are only a select number of institutional investors who are willing to take Board seats (largely due to high volume investing models than Homebrew employs), but when we co-invest with a likeminded fund, we’re often thrilled to see a partner from that fund assume the Director role.

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The Secret History of Silicon Valley 11: The Rise of “Risk Capital.

Steve Blank

Whitney Company by writing a personal check for $5M and hiring Benno Schmidt as the first partner (Schmidt turned Whitney’s description of “private adventure capital&# into the term “venture capital”). set up companies to do just that – find and formalize investments in new and emerging industries. In 1946 Jock Whitney started J.H.