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Essays

⏮️2025 in Review - and What I'm Taking Into 2026⏭️

Jan 1, 2026

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10 min read

⏮️2025 in Review - and What I'm Taking Into 2026⏭️

Subscriber Numbers, Open Rates, and How We Automate Investing

Andre Retterath

Insights

⚡Unicorn Patterns, Do Expensive Startups Outperform?, The State of VC, Equity Vesting Practices & More

Dec 30, 2025

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12 min read

⚡Unicorn Patterns, Do Expensive Startups Outperform?, The State of VC, Equity Vesting Practices & More

New Research From Sequoia, AngelList, Carta & More

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How to Integrate Data Sources and Make Them Actionable With AI

Dec 28, 2025

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7 min read

How to Integrate Data Sources and Make Them Actionable With AI

+ The State of LLMs, What We Can Learn From Billionaires, The Prison of Financial Mediocrity & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

Dec 25, 2025

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4 min read

🎁 Xmas Gifts

16 VC Pitchdecks, 10 Prompts for Startup Sourcing & How to Scrape Alternative Data

Andre Retterath

Insights

🚀Time to $1B Revenue, Growth Playbooks, Who Should Send Recruiting Messages & More

Dec 23, 2025

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13 min read

🚀Time to $1B Revenue, Growth Playbooks, Who Should Send Recruiting Messages & More

Insights, Patterns & Playbooks From the Fastest-Growing Companies

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in December 2025

Dec 21, 2025

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14 min read

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in December 2025

Data from SpaceX, OpenAI, Antrophic, Netflix & More

Andre Retterath

Essays

Find the Best Automation Tools for Your Job (Automation Experiment Part 3)

Dec 18, 2025

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10 min read

Find the Best Automation Tools for Your Job (Automation Experiment Part 3)

n8n, Zapier, Make, Lindy, Bardeen & More

Andre Retterath

Insights

💥How to Master Talent Attraction in the Age of AI

Dec 16, 2025

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16 min read

💥How to Master Talent Attraction in the Age of AI

Why Most Companies Lose Great Candidates and How to Fix the Funnel

Andre Retterath, +1

Resources

How to Leverage AI for Portfolio Insights and Value Creation

Dec 14, 2025

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7 min read

How to Leverage AI for Portfolio Insights and Value Creation

Learnings from Atomico, Bain Capital Ventures, and Vestberry

Andre Retterath

Essays

Dec 11, 2025

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4 min read

Summarize 50+ Newsletters With ChatGPT (Automation Experiment Part 2)

Full Prompt to Read, Summarize & Create a Daily Digest for All Your Newsletters

Andre Retterath

DDVC Newsletter Library

Discover the full archive of Data Driven VC insights.

⏮️2025 in Review - and What I'm Taking Into 2026⏭️

⚡Unicorn Patterns, Do Expensive Startups Outperform?, The State of VC, Equity Vesting Practices & More

How to Integrate Data Sources and Make Them Actionable With AI

🎁 Xmas Gifts

🚀Time to $1B Revenue, Growth Playbooks, Who Should Send Recruiting Messages & More

🔥 How Much Is Your Startup Worth These Days? Here's the State of the Market in December 2025

Find the Best Automation Tools for Your Job (Automation Experiment Part 3)

💥How to Master Talent Attraction in the Age of AI

How to Leverage AI for Portfolio Insights and Value Creation

Summarize 50+ Newsletters With ChatGPT (Automation Experiment Part 2)

Become a better investor with data & AI