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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. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

We were doing Social bookmarking around health and wellness products. I’ve done this with lots of founders and we usually glaringly see skills missing like financial management or HR managements or digital marketing or whatever those things are. Our business model was Pinterest. Peter: Caroline.