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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. But beyond that, not much.

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Changes in Software & Venture Capital – Part 2 of 3

Both Sides of the Table

Open cloud led by Amazon with their AWS services drove total operating costs down by 90%. The LP Community Hasn’t Yet Caught Up. As I’ve started to get to know the other side of the VC industry lately (the people who invest in VC funds or “LPs&# ) one thing has occurred to me. I think some will do this.

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Crisis Shmisis: Q2 2010 Closes with 40 deals and more than $400 million raised in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. May 25, 2010 - ZeRTO , an Israeli startup developing cloud computing services announced that it has raised a first round of $6 million from Battery Ventures and existing investor Greylock Partners. The company has raised $1.1

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Crisis Shmisis: 40 deals, more than $400 Million raised in Q2 2010 in Israel (Deal Summary)

VC Cafe

Looking at the aggregated list gives a quick sense of what funds are actively making investments. May 25, 2010 - ZeRTO , an Israeli startup developing cloud computing services announced that it has raised a first round of $6 million from Battery Ventures and existing investor Greylock Partners. The company has raised $1.1

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

Like most politically important information, consumers will eventually get to be in control of their own aggregated data. While Clouds over Cuba represents something more apocalyptic, it is still part of the ‘what if’ narrative. The final question is what happens to our data when we die?

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. But email quickly moved into the cloud. It was stored in the cloud. Due to their bylaws and LP agreements and things, they can only hold public securities, like in the traditional sense. How did it come on your radar for the first time?

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