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

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Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP.

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Restrictions on acquisitions would stifle the US startup ecosystem, not rein in big tech

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Congressional committees have held scores of hearings, lawsuits have been filed and legislation has been introduced to regulate privacy and data collection. For VC-backed companies, there are effectively three outcomes: standalone company (often via an IPO), merger or acquisition, or bankruptcy.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

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These changes will create opportunities for founders across the entire stack of computer-aided design tools for architects, Geographic Information Systems (GIS), Building Information Modeling (BIM) tools, and finally integration with 3-D environmental models to understand and design the lifetime impact of the buildings.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Why your title matters, part-time CFOs, Sequoia’s new model

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” That might work inside mature companies, but early-stage founders who are presenting themselves to investors must be more specific. In an interview with Natasha Mascarenhas, B2B stealth startup founder Akshaya Dinesh recounted the time her team was rejected by an accelerator because they hadn’t yet picked a CEO.

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

David Teten VC

Haystack VC runs almost entirely on Notion. Point Nine Capital’s website is now powered by Contentful ; they use Unbounce for landing pages ; and Typeform for surveys and other data collection. Delian Asparouhov, Founders Fund, says on the home page of Matchbox.vc: “Ladies and Gentleman, welcome to 2020.

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Announcing the startups and judges onstage at TC Sessions: Mobility 2022

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Hailing from around the United States and the globe, founders will pitch on the main stage, for four minutes, followed by an intense Q&A with our expert panel of judges. Join us on Wednesday, May 18 and Thursday, May 19 to watch these incredible founders take the stage. I know you want to see who made the cut.

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‘How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live?’ — Eikon Therapeutics rakes in $518M

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Adam Goulburn, a partner at Lux Capital, was first struck by Eikon Therapeutics’ pitch to use super microscopes to develop drugs when founder Eric Betzig posed a simple question: How can you understand life if you don’t look at it live? . “It It was such a simple statement, but it was kind of eye opening to me,” Goulburn tells TechCrunch.