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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

To do this they have to accomplish five things; 1) get deal flow – via networking and legwork, they identify likely industries, companies and teams with the potential for rapid growth (less than 10 years), 2) evaluate those companies and teams on the basis of technology, market opportunity, and team.

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

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 4) Manage deal flow.

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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. I have developed a founder curriculum on my blog. Customer Development. A well-developed model is Andreessen Horowitz’s Executive Briefing Center. A true industry luminary will help in deal flow & differentiation . AskAnything.VC Disadvantages.