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Gazzang Banks $3.5M Series A

Austin Startup

Austin Ventures was the lead institutional investor, accompanied by a group of smaller individual investors. In addition, software industry veteran Larry Warnock, who led the acquisition of Phurnace Software by BMC Software earlier this year, has joined Gazzang as CEO. Gazzang, Inc.,

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

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. That Google document provides cut and pasteable text I can share with other investors, based on their stage, focus, and appetite. . I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide. Deer Isle Group has built the D.I.G.

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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A Companies like Gartner, Forrester or eMarketer regularly produce reports about tech trends and verticals. 1) Industry reports. 7) Mattermark.

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