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

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. For more rigorous, bottoms-up sizing exercises I suggest tools such as Statista and the United States Census Bureau (also their North American Industry Classification System database) to help identify more specific data.

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How to create a profitable Freemium startup (spreadsheet model included!)

andrewchenblog.com

If you have a super high churn rate, then at best you’ll be stuck at a revenue treadmill (doing lots of work but flat revenue and no profitability). For notifications, there’s been a lot of great work in the database and catalog marketing world, for example Strategic Database Marketing.

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