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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

Both Sides of the Table

I believe that huge financial, productivity and technical gains come from new innovation rather than derivative thinking. He said that data suggests people prefer to “buy high, sell low.&# And so it goes in tech investing. I still love B2B application. I’ve lived through two tech market corrections at close range.

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

At the time, LA and Santa Clara were both the epicenter of the technology industry due to the significant overlap between the aerospace/military industry (Los Angeles) and the computing business (Silicon Valley). Given our backgrounds, we often get asked about what makes the tech scene in Los Angeles different from that in the Valley.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow. It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive. 2) Marketing. See Where Are the Deals?!: 5) Manage deal flow.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Another critical design consideration is your tech stack. This tool serves to standardize & automate the process of collecting inbound deal flow. It seamlessly creates a deal folder (company name) in our Google Drive. 2) Marketing. See Where Are the Deals?!: 5) Manage deal flow.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . Great returns in early stage investing is driven by great deal flow and good picking.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.