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VC Corner: Ann Miura-Ko, Floodgate

Startup Grind

Some of Ann’s investments include Lyft, Ayasdi, Xamarin, Refinery29, JoyRun, TaskRabbit, and Modcloth. Given the success of her investments she was on the 2017 Midas List of top 100 venture capitalists. What and when was your very first investment? I really admire David Swensen, Chief Investment Officer at Yale.

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

David Teten VC

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. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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

David Teten VC

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. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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TechCrunch+ roundup: YC Demo Day faves, thrift shop VCs, cybersecurity product challenges

TechCrunch

Please note that these are for entertainment purposes only, as “we’re not offering investing advice or recommending anyone join or back a startup.” ” Thanks very much for reading. Have a great weekend! Now, the company has 50 employees, plans to open a cat café and is eyeing an expansion into retail.

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How to maintain engineering velocity as you scale

Y Combinator

When we launched in 2017, we were a team of five engineers. I used these meetings to get advice, but more importantly I was always giving them updates on our progress, vision, fundraising, and product releases. Train your team to use experimentation frameworks. We had a few amazing engineers in mind we wanted to hire early on.

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Xayn is privacy-safe, personalized mobile web search powered by on-device AIs

TechCrunch

The team behind the app, which is comprised of 30% PhDs, has been working on the core privacy vs convenience problem for some six years (though the company was only founded in 2017); initially as an academic research project — going on to offer an open source framework for masked federated learning, called XayNet.

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FundersClub Weekly Newsletter - June 8, 2017

FundersClub

" Ryan Ridley of Rick and Morty talks about the sci-fi elements of the show, their new VR game Virtual Rick-ality, and his advice for creators in " Rick and Morty Writer: Ryan Ridley. Want to invest in the best startups? " Snap Inc. " Did You Know? Did you know that ants can lift 20 times their own body weight?