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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. An investor had few hard metrics other than the actual financials, and little technology to make the process scaleable. But we’re doing it slowly. 9% (1 / 12). 1) Market fund.

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Flexible VC, a New Model for Companies Targeting Profitability

David Teten

This structure allows for alignment on the front end, and real-time flexibility for performance metrics,” says Samira Salman , a family office investor and advisor. . Flexible VCs have created structures based on other company performance metrics than revenues, such as profits or founder salaries. Flexible VC 102: Variations.

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Marketing Your Portfolio Companies to Other Investors

David Teten

See How VCs structure a syndicate and recruit coinvestors for more on this. I regularly meet with other VCs, and based on their criteria, I share with them whichever portfolio companies fit their areas of interest. . – 1 sentence with most exciting metric from their growth. Subject line: Relevant Portfolio Companies .

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . The proportion of LPs using technology to manage their portfolios will continue to increase, and GPs unable to provide quality data to LPs will find it increasingly hard to retain and attract LPs.

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Announcing NextView Ventures II

Rob Go

For a seed stage venture capital firm, product/market fit comes down to two questions. 1) How is the portfolio performing? On performance, we are happy with how things are shaping up in our early NextView I portfolio. 2) Is your reputation in the market such that great people will want to work with you? Twitter ).

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McKinsey highlight #1 - Cracking The Code - Yes

Cracking the Code

Done deal: after a quick syndication with the kitchen team (their job was at stake, so they were easy to convince.), Portfolio. (3). Venture Capital. (3). SaaS business metrics: why are they different? Explore Venture Capital. Cloud Computing. (1). Europe Consumer. (1). Favorite Podcasts. (1).

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What Milestones Are Needed to Raise a Series A? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

For entrepreneurs seeking to build big companies on a rapid trajectory, raising larger scale venture capital rounds is likely a necessity at some point after the initial seed funding. 4) Metric momentum – Everybody likes those up and to the right graphs. What’s Your Favorite Future?