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Three Places At Once: Challenges VCs Face In Managing Their Time [Part II]

The Seraf Compass

In Part I of this article we talked about the challenges and responsibilities General Partners face managing a fund. Now let's take a closer look at the time commitment involved when you're ready to invest in a company, what's required when serving as a board director, and how GPs should handle communications with their LPs.

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How to Manage a Startup Through Troubling Times

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Manage your own expectations. Manage your own expectations, and then manage the expectations of those around you. Manage your stress level. Perhaps most important, is to manage the stress in yourself. When a startup isn’t doing well, entrepreneurs can be particularly hard on themselves. Stress builds up over time.

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Venture Capital - A Practical Guide to Fund Formation and Management

The Seraf Compass

This series of articles is written for fund managers who are creating these new sources of entrepreneur-focused capital today, and those who aspire to start funds in the near future. And, wherever you find entrepreneurs, you will find investors looking to finance those entrepreneurs.

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Seraf Launches Highly Anticipated Deal Flow Management Solution

The Seraf Compass

A natural product extension to Seraf’s renowned portfolio management solution, our new deal flow product enables teams to collaborate and efficiently usher deals from sourcing to exit all in one place. Seraf is thrilled to announce its new suite of Deal Flow tools for early stage funds, family offices and angel investment groups.

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How to Build Data Experiences for End Users

Organizational data literacy is regularly addressed, but it’s uncommon for product managers to consider users’ data literacy levels when building products. Product managers need to research and recognize their end users' data literacy when building an application with analytic features.

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3 Rules of delegation every manager should follow

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Recently, I spoke to a group of new managers at our company about the crucial lessons I’ve learned in my own leadership journey. I have seen this same theme crop up repeatedly at our company: virtually all our new managers struggle with delegation. Great managers lead others to do great work , rather than doing everything themselves.

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Bolster Your Management Team And Board

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

Their new company Bolster is all about scaling and building a great management team for your startup. The Bolster team believes that scaling a high growth company means that you need to adapt, grow, and supplement your management team continuously along the way.

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Digitalization: 5 Tech Updates That Will Help You Survive The Recession & Thrive

The tech market offers a wealth of technologies tailored for management, planning, and forecasting, replacing outdated pen-and-paper methods. The approach to digitalization often aligns with a company's business model. This shift not only boosts productivity but also automates processes and improves security.

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How to Find and Test Assumptions in Product Development

Watch this webinar with Laura Klein, product manager and author of Build Better Products, to learn how to spot the unconscious assumptions which you’re basing decisions on and guidelines for validating (or invalidating) your ideas. Assumptions mapping is the process of identifying and testing your riskiest ideas.

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The Essential Guide to Building Analytic Applications

What should product managers keep in mind when adding an analytics project to their roadmap? What are best practices when designing the UI and UX of embedded dashboards, reports, and analytics? What should software teams know about implementing security that works with the rest of their products?

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Why B2B Contact and Account Data Management Is Critical to Your ROI

Download this eBook and gain an understanding of the impact of data management on your company’s ROI. Given data’s direct impact on marketing campaigns, reporting, and sales follow-up, maintaining an accurate and consistent database is a top priority for B2B organizations. You'll learn about: The true cost of bad (and good) data.

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Pressure Points: How to Ensure Your B2B Pipeline Passes Inspection

This eBook highlights best practices for developing a pipeline management process that helps sales leaders and their team C.L.O.S.E you’ll see what we mean in this eBook) more revenue through data-driven prospecting, stage analysis, and subsequent sales enablement.

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2020 Database Strategies and Contact Acquisition Survey Report

47% of marketers said they have a database management strategy in place, but there is room for significant improvement. As buyer expectations to receive this type of relevant engagement continues to heighten, database management strategies are of high importance.

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Forrester Research Report: How Sales and Marketing Intelligence Drive Improved Business Outcomes

of companies achieved a score indicating maturity in data management practices in the space.". Check out this latest report to gain insight into best practices (and benefits) for B2B data management including how: Automating tasks and improving data quality would increase sales staff satisfaction and productivity. The primary takeaway?

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Best Practices for a Marketing Database Cleanse

As frustrating as contact and account data management is, this is still your database – a massive asset to your organization, even if it is rife with holes and inaccurate information. This buyers guide will cover: Review of important terminology, metrics, and pricing models related to database management projects.