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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. I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done. 1) Manage the firm .

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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. For example, on our first company, our idea was not to do the social bookmarking. Bigger than that was we had an operating agreement that had a non dilution clause for him and I don’t want to get into the weeds of that.