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How we can improve the odds of finding unicorns

Version One Ventures

Nowadays, we can learn virtually everything about a company online, from its tagline to founder backgrounds, fundraising history, current investors, and social media traction. There has been a lot of focus on B2C marketplaces, but there are still tremendous opportunities left in the B2B space. B2B marketplaces. Manage your time wisely.

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

David Teten

Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 4) Manage deal flow. For example, we created a pipeline management tool that automatically adds deals along with relevant information (such as attachments received) to our funnel.

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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. Her answer? ‘I