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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. I host on Hostforweb **. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. This is hosted by NFX. Hootsuite.

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The Other Amazon Deal this week. Drupal founder attracts over $100 Million in 3 months.

Scalable Startup

Plus, there are tons of expenses like servers, bandwidth, office space, travel and the time of many professionals. Acuia provides premium, high security, supported hosting to it’s customers, which all runs on top of Amazon AWS. Because they are open source. more info on the funding round from @thewhir [link].

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How SaaS + Mobile has changed our world.

Scalable Startup

The software just doesn’t leave it’s cloud hosts anymore. This saves energy, mistakes, cost, time, client computer memory and bandwidth. But more importantly, the labor of moving software around by humans and physical media and even the Internet has been taken down to almost zero. It vastly reduces computer waste.

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Tracking the Hiring Funnel

This is going to be BIG.

Recruiting isn't hard work--it just takes bandwidth--a dedicated effort. When you host a developer Meetup, anyone who attended is a name--a potential recruiting target. It could be something so simple as checking a box when you host a meetup that says "Yes, I'm willing to be contacted about employment opportunities."

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Don't Change User Behavior: What Coin Gets Right

This is going to be BIG.

Instead of carrying three credit cards, a bank card, and a host of other random plastic in my wallet, I get to carry one card. End users, well, we''ve already been mindlessly seeking out open wifi nodes like little bandwidth zombies for years. Venture Capital & Technology' Tons of venues are already providing wifi.

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Some thoughts on #Meerkat

This is going to be BIG.

So after being around all these apps, eight consecutive years of going down to Austin, speaking three times, judging a thing, hosting the first SXSW wiffle ball tourney, I''m feeling pretty darn qualified to weigh in on the ultimate future of a five day old app. Venture Capital & Technology' I''ve even used it a couple of times!

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

Both Sides of the Table

This is part of my ongoing series on Understanding Venture Capital. I recently wrote a blog post on understanding how the size and age of a venture capital fund might affect you when you’re raising money. Bandwidth and hosting charges were expensive. I like the way he thinks.