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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. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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

David Teten

Even for later-stage companies with predictable financials, the lack of liquidity, audited financials, and standardized metrics creates real challenges to scaling quantitative investing. Later stage investors are using private company marketplace services focused on more established companies, listed below under “Exit Investments”.

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What’s a Fair 409A Discount?

VC Adventure

It was a benefit to employees and a slight value transfer from equity holders to option holders (generally speaking in M&A transactions the value of the aggregate option exercise ends up allocated across the rest of the cap table). Similarly I assumed that later stage companies would also show a smaller gap. I was wrong.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But at a macro level, widespread failure this early is far less painful than if it came at later stages. “Founders don’t think their problems are due to trends. The Week in Review. . “There are so many companies in Silicon Valley that have raised $30 million and done absolutely nothing with it.”

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

And investors said they intend to invest more in cleantech than software going forward. This is a big reversal, as software has long been the dominant category for venture deals, but it’s unknown whether software has lost favor, or whether it’s just become so pervasive that it doesn’t really hold together as a category anymore.