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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. While it’s still early-stage, I’m excited to continue following this space. Niche-Based Social Networks. . - Raul Pla , SimpleWifi and UseABoat. Pinterest and Visual Search.

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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. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners.

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Early Stage Marketing and Branding – Farida Fotouhi

SoCal CTO

She is a go to person for me when I have questions around technology or early stage marketing and branding. I hadn't talked to her in a while and then because of a presentation I did around Social Media for Service Professionals she and I reconnected. Same goes for online business networking. Maybe ten years.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 3) Raise capital.

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The Role of Angel Groups Going Forward

This is going to be BIG.

For a long time, they were basically the only game in town for seed and early stage funding in NYC. Not only has the NYC ecosystem changed, but the whole ecosystem around early and seed investing has innovated. Meeting in person is no longer the only way an angel investor can get looped in a network of other investors.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

of VCs said they had a decreased appetite for risk and that more than half of those polled expect their firms to do between zero and three deals in the next year and you start to get the feeling things are going to get a lot worse for private companies, in aggregate, before they get better. Add to this that 72.7%