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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. Because I invest in “ lines, not dots ” it’s actually the delta that I’m investing in.

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Bad Notes on Venture Capital

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There were no metrics. Him: On metrics. If we priced it based on any metrics your company would likely be worth less than 7 figures at your A round. Me: When an investor signs a note with a cap they must assume they are willing to pay the cap or why would they invest? Me: So, who was willing to invest in that?

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How to Use Generative AI and LLMs to Improve Search

TechEmpower

This enables internal users to swiftly find answers to queries such as "What is our internal IP address?" Precision and Recall Metrics: Define a process to assess the precision (the relevance of retrieved documents) and the recall (how many of the relevant documents were fetched). or "How can I modify my direct deposit account?"

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Interview with Vanessa Dawson, The Vinetta Project

socalTECH

They are looking for early-stage companies, which have an advantage with IP, or some sort of patent, or sensibility from the technical perspective. Whether they are building a marketplace, or building an e-commerce platform, understanding the growth metrics for a company is really the key.

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Clinton Foy: Why We Bought Our Own E-Sports Team, the Immortals

socalTECH

This is a way to be a player in that space, and work with everybody�the other team owners, the leagues and publishers, the IP holders, and the e-sports community�to create that. How would you compare this investment, versus the more traditional investments you have been doing at Crosscut? That's what's exciting about this.

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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One area I’ve had much discussion with the companies in which I’ve invested in is bringing on board an operationally focused CFO. The full financial details and metrics were in the deck. So my time was freed up to call board members in advance and walk them through our metrics and understand any concerns.