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

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. 3) Originate investments. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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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. Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide. 2) Market . I never used the word qualified.’.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. Read this story that is typical of many entrepreneurs with whom I talk. What does that mean? Let’s look again at Adly.

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