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The Big Opportunity for Bots in Messaging

Version One Ventures

As the first stage, we’re already seeing messaging bots that act as gateways or aggregators to existing services. However, the potential for such aggregators is rather limited, since there’s not much value add and most on-demand services will likely have their own messaging bots in the near future.

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How to Scale Support of Portfolio Companies

David Teten

the “TOPSCAN” framework from my research study on value creation by VCs ): T eam-Building – We aggregate openings across our portfolio on our jobs page. Ideally each portfolio company would also report their own data to the data-trackers (except when they’re in stealth), but not all of them are diligent. RJMetrics ); technology (e.g.,

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Four Stealth Israeli Startups with promise: Interntial, SourceFox, INEZE, Crowdspot

VC Cafe

INZEZE search,is a search-by-description engine, that doesn’t assume the user specifically knows what he’s after – he only knows how to describe some of it. The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power.

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Four Stealth Israeli Startups with promise: Intential, SourceFox, INEZE, Crowdspot

VC Cafe

INZEZE search,is a search-by-description engine, that doesn’t assume the user specifically knows what he’s after – he only knows how to describe some of it. The aggregated product data can be easily queried, and thus compared, matched and filtered with unprecedented ease and power.

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It’s Time to Play Moneyball: The Investment Readiness Level

Steve Blank

Teams use the Lean Startup toolkit: the Business Model Canvas + Customer Development process + Agile Engineering. Metrics visible at a glance are number of customer interviews in the current week as well as aggregate interviews, hypotheses to test, invalidated hypotheses, mentor and instructor engagements. Lessons Learned.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

Both Sides of the Table

By now we all know that the largest part of the online spend has been SEM (search engine marketing) where people buy CPC (cost per click) links to display alongside the “organic&# search results in the search engine. It’s still in stealth but plans to make announcements soon. I’ll save it for a future post.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

What are “Reg D” filings with the SEC and why does this make it harder to stay in stealth mode? I asked some of the participating VCs, and they told me their attorneys had figured out a way to keep their stealth-mode companies stealthy.Yes, this strategy is not for every company. We spoke briefly about why.

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