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Launching a Portfolio Acceleration Platform at a Venture Capital or Private Equity Fund

David Teten

aggregates resources from all the VCs. Several VCs market close relationships with celebrities who can use their social media presence to promote their companies. A well-organized library of best practices for founders in your vertical, which you can share as appropriate. AskAnything.VC Celebrity Relationships.

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Save and Print These LumaScapes to Get a Grasp on Digital Media [Infographics]

VC Cafe

LumaPartners , a US-based consulting firm, has created a series of infographics that chart the various vertical of the digital media industry including display advertising, mobile, commerce, search, social, and video. Metacafe – Video > Aggregation. Save and print this one folks. Videosurf – Video > Video Search.

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

Both Sides of the Table

When the NVCA or PriceWaterhouse surveys come out at the end of year I’m not saying they will necessarily will show aggregate $$$ or deal numbers up. But there are many zombie VC’s with no more investments left in their portfolios so it’s hard to know which trend has more impact.

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29 Seriously Inspiring Interviews For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

YoungUpstarts

Pete Cashmore at Bloomberg Venture , July 7, 2010: By this point, anyone familiar with new media, technology, social media, and the Internet know Mashable, seeing as how it’s currently one of the largest, most profitable blogs around. Chuck Feeney at RTE Radio 1 , Jan.

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

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. 10) Report.

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Soundbites from the Future – 2013

Start Up Blog

An era defined and dominated by the few who could afford the factories, the media and the distribution systems. We need to have a close look at the worlds two biggest social media networks of Twitter and Facebook – they run open API’s for each other to assist their customers and suppliers switch and share between each other.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. He had run it for something like 40 years, built it into a behemoth, and then one day, some investment bankers in his board engineered a coup to kick him out, and take the company public, and basically strip-mine it and destroy what made it distinctive. So yeah, fair enough.

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