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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund and mutual fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . But we’re doing it slowly. 6) Negotiate deal.

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Shiroube.com Finds Local Guides For Travelers

YoungUpstarts

Locals sign up to provide guide services for free – or pay a fee to put up more ads or remove certain limitations such as the number of email notifications they get – and travelers use the site for free to search the database for the type of guide services required.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs.

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Dear Avinash: Search / SEO Metrics & Analytics Questions + Answers

Occam's Razor

But if you are willing to put in a little bit of sweat equity then you'll stand miles apart from your SEO competitors. The basic techniques you use to do search engine optimization between b2b and b2c do not change all that much. Ok All that is the same, no matter if you are a b2b, b2c, b2a (business to aliens, yes they do exist!).

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Does Your VC have an Investment Thesis, or a Hypothesis?

David Teten

125 theses so far submitted by investors into the OpenVC database. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. B2B vs B2C) within the business model preference. . We’ve identified 6 common patterns of how VCs articulate their theses, and some best practices in doing so.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Blogs (web development): Giant Robots Smashing Into Other Giant Robots – [link] Company blog of thoughtbot covering Ruby on Rails, HTML, CSS, Javascript, databases, and mobile development. You’ve got everyone who ever breathed in that database. Simple editing. WebSequenceDiagrams - sketch sequence diagrams.