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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. But, most of use raise capital and source deals the same way people looked for dates 20 years ago: by networking at conferences (or bars). . I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales.

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

One of the things I discuss the most with the portfolio companies I’m involved with is that “you manage what you measure.”. Only one guy in the room knew – their tech lead. He told me in some combinations of device / OS / network they are crashing 4 times per 100. The biggest limitation we tech consumers have is our time.

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Internet/Media: 5 things that will define 2011

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Year of Social Utilities. With over half a billion users and open graph integration, Facebook is the Internet with social graph at its core. This is as much of a game-changer (due to a new distribution model based on the social graph) as going from offline to the Internet was in the 90s. A Lightspeed Portfolio company.

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Innovate Israel Conference Brings 28 Israeli startups to London

VC Cafe

Potential partnerships with media and telecom giants make it attractive enough though, and hopefully there will be cross polination between the Israeli startups and the great tech cluster in London. There will also be a free networking reception at Campus on Monday, June 25th. Applicaster - Company Website. How do we do this?

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Every startup faces multiple choices and decisions when it comes to technology. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Girls in Tech. Ad Serving Technology. Analytics review â?? Seed Startups. Mailing lists/groups.

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Email Marketing: Campaign Analysis, Metrics, Best Practices

Occam's Razor

To not have it as an active part of your marketing portfolio is sub-optimal. Most email programs now have preview panes that typically block images and scripts (Outlook, Thunderbird, Gmail, everyone), and default settings prevent data collection due to concerns about viruses. Every fiber of your being. That is okay.

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