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

David Teten

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). . Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.

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

David Teten

The historic capital-raising process is driven by face-to-face networking and salesmanship. Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 2) Raise capital.

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How to Master PPC Targeting and Choose the Right Ad Platform

ConversionXL

The PPC targeting options that Facebook has available are different from Google AdWords, LinkedIn, Twitter, and the abundance of other PPC marketing networks you have available. Sometimes your product or offer is so new that there’s no search demand out there for you to easily harvest. LinkedIn (not great for B2C).

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CXL Live 2017 Recap: Optimization & Growth Insights from 20+ Experts

ConversionXL

Test functionality before you try to harvest fruits. Bill Leake: Optimizing for the “Considered Purchase”: What Changes if You’re B2B or Expensive / Long Sales Cycle B2C? Exponential Expansion Framework: Infiltrate their Network, Timing, Prescriptive. Simulators are unreliable. Use virgins; first interaction. Image Credit.