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

David Teten

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. This is a great example of why data businesses have substantial moats. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

Peter: The net result is they ended up self-publishing under this company called Robot Paper. At least it wasn’t for me, and people in my social network. These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. Let’s talk. This is great.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

But the angels who’ve staked their funds on spreading bits of money all over the Valley are increasingly anxious that only 20 percent of their deals — in aggregate — will get the chance to keep going. HealthTab acquires Avvo Health to double its doctor network. They don’t have to worry. November 29, 2012.

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Stuck in the middle with you (an uncut rant)

VC Cafe

Aggregated, that’s a lot of money. These are mostly search engines, portals and ecommerce platforms (google.com, yahoo.com, bing.com, amazon.com, ebay.com, msn.com, aol.com etc). These are mostly search engines, portals and news sites (soso.com, baidu.com, 163.com, But how many sites do you use on a regular basis?

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7% next to nothing, charge?

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

In addition, Cellguide’s GPSense engine is chip agnostic and could use pseudo- ranges from any GNSS receiver thus creating a fully featured locaiton and navigation engine. Dasur’s solution is based on a unique, patented pattern recognition engine. Cellint provides the best road traffic information service world wide.

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Special: 72 Israeli Companies Exhibit at the 2010 Mobile World Congress

VC Cafe

Datanetis’s solutions enable organizations to leverage, for the first time, social networks and social influencers as part of their marketing activities on a large scale. mobile telephone operators, broadcasters, content aggregators and media agents. A turnkey solution based on a fully telco-grade platform. 4.9 & 5.x

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