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

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. A number of analysts have particular focus on serving the customers of technology companies, e.g., Gartner and 451 Research.

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

David Teten

This provides us more time to develop meaningful relationships with prospects and customers. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. These typically have a larger support ecosystem and greater assurance of long-term stability than the custom vendors.

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

Asset management also shows the traditional earmarks of an industry ripe for disruption — most obviously, unhappy customers and extremely profitable incumbents. Almost every other industry collectively does what it promises; the restaurant industry does give all its customers food. In aggregate, angels are significant investors.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

We’re co-leading the $6 million investment with Roger Ehrenberg at IA Ventures in NY and one of the most respected early-stage investors in the country in “big data&# companies. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. And I feel great about that.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

What are the implications for other late-stage private companies thinking of making the transition to public markets in the near to midterm future? What’s the impact for early-stage startups? I see several dynamics at work in today’s IPO markets. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. 0160; If I need $250,000 to get to 100 customers, or $1 million to get to X, and I can raise both amounts from either Angels or VCs, where do we turn? Customer Care Today. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. What do you think?