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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

How much risk do IP issues in the aggregate pose to our business ? This could include anything from a clever domain name in the coveted.com TLD to issued patents or patent applications that could serve as barriers to entry for potential competitors. Building and populating databases of user-supplied information and content (copyright).

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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

However, all of the current talk about machine learning and AI tools running on top of these databases is absolutely nonsensical, unless there is keen focus and incentives on getting the underlying data right. CB Insights , Preqin and Mattermark were also named as platforms that are regularly updated by GPs.

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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. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.

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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. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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Out of the Crisis #3, Jen Pahlka and Raylene Yung on creating the U.S. Digital Response

Startup Lessons Learned

Deputy Chief Technology Officer in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy from 2013–2014, where she founded the United States Digital Service. 44:12) Show-related links Code for America United States Digital Service 18F U.S. There was a guy in New Jersey government named Ross Dakin.

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Google BigQuery: A Tutorial for Marketers

ConversionXL

No database administration; No limitations; Quick imports; Process terabytes in seconds; Data stored in EU or United States; Encryption; Access control; Two-step verification; Data-loss prevention; Integration with other Google tools; $300 in test credits; Huge community; Educational resources (courses, labs, etc.). Saved query.

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