David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

My colleagues Sebastian Soler , Steven Greenberg and I recently launched a new online community, PEVCTech.com , exclusively for PE/VC investors; engineers who work at PE/VC funds; and other technologists who specialize in working on this problem. VC Firm. $ Tech % of workforce. Google Ventures (GV). 17% (13 / 80). . 9% (1 / 12).

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BeyondVC

MARCH 18, 2018

With over 120,000 developers using the platform, 100,000 projects protected, 350,000 downloads per month, and notable partnerships with Heroku, JFrog and Microsoft Sonar, Snyk has proven it can get developers to fully adopt a security solution, and the importance of having the strongest database of known vulnerabilities in open source.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 17, 2017

Internship Title: Software Development Intern Compensation: UnPaid Description: appVuze is looking for a Software Development Intern who is pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or similar discipline. Our ideal candidate is hands on, passionate, persistent, creative, and a DOer.

Semantic 48

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Extension Engine - Software engineering and design. Cloudant - Database as a service (backed by Avalon). Custommade – Marketplace for Customer Products (NextView Portfolio Company). GrabCAD – 3D Community and Collaboration (NextView Portfolio Company). Plastiq – Payments (NextView Portfolio Company).

Boston 71

Boston Technical Review Community Cofounder 71

View from Seed

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Recently, I’ve been working with a few of our portfolio companies to help them think about how to recruit and interview their first analytics hire. Technical proficiency: This usually means one’s ability to navigate the database and write SQL queries/Python/R scripts to retrieve the data in question and doing advanced data manipulation.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. of Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. Coats says the VC firm spent more than six years and invested millions of dollars to compile a database of key variables from more than 60,000 venture financing deals covering roughly 98 percent of all U.S. New York ›.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

I started as a programmer, and then a database designer, and then a project manager, and I led conversion teams. They paid engineers $4,000 more entry-point. By the way, the salary, which was a good salary, was $27,000 entry salary, and engineers were paid $31,000 to $35,000. [00:10:30] Engineering vs. non-engineering. [00:10:32]

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Other players such as Obopay have set out to focus on mobile person-to-person cash transfers, mFoundry (a GRP portfolio company) has focused on mobile banking and a mobile wallet and one of my favorite companies m-via is focusing on mobile remittances (right now between the US and Mexico).

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 27, 2011

An irrepressible leader, Alfred was soon promoted to run all of engineering. He then grew Application Servers into the most important new category in enterprise infrastructure software since the Relational Database. In the last decade, the CEO that I admired most was Alfred Chuang.

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Version One Ventures

JANUARY 26, 2016

For many of us, LinkedIn has never been much more than a database of stale resumes. Over the past few years, we’ve seen a number of start-ups try to carve away parts of LinkedIn by being the “LinkedIn for x” – where x ranges from doctors, teachers, finance professionals, academics, lawyers, engineers, etc.

Vertical 60

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TechEmpower

MARCH 28, 2013

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. Weak performance can also cause premature scale pain, user experience degradation, and associated penalties levied by search engines. Database access test (single query). For database access tests, we considered dropping Cake to constrain our EC2 costs. March 28, 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 18, 2010

Real-time search engine. Structured data asset creation works in on demand in real-time across multiple data sets Including web, e-mail, internal databases, documents, and media. Will expand IBM’s business analytics capabilities and become part of IBM’s application and integration middleware portfolio. Read More: TechCrunch.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 18, 2018

In many cases the implementation will involve database changes, scheduled tasks, and cumbersome logic to tie it all together. There are software applications, or workflow engines, that have been created to manage business processes. None of that counts for anything of course if the backend workflow engine isn't up to scratch.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 12, 2017

However, all of the current talk about machine learning and AI tools running on top of these databases is absolutely nonsensical, unless there is keen focus and incentives on getting the underlying data right. We make heavy use of Slack both internally and with our portfolio company founders for messaging and task progression.

Early Stage 60

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David Teten

JANUARY 23, 2021

Set up the basic marketing toolkit: deck, website, accurate online databases, and social media accounts. . Among the most important information to include: details on return history, legal documents, fund organization chart, portfolio construction model , portfolio company 1-pagers, key personnel resumes, and case studies of past investments.

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VC Adventure

JUNE 8, 2010

Several of our particularly data intensive businesses have hired business analysts whose entire job function is to comb through databases and pull out interesting stats and trends.

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ReadWriteStart

DECEMBER 8, 2011

So, the definition of a lead database has expanded from being Name, Address, Email ID, Phone No, etc., The market is crowded, but Stathis has a critical mass of traffic and transactions, as well as a large portfolio of car rental companies providing data to make the service viable. From 2008 to 2010, Mitra was a columnist for Forbes.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. Massive Scale with Unprecedented Speed BlazingDB offers a massively distributed, “cloud first”, high performance SQL database that achieves performance gains on the largest workloads and datasets at extraordinarily competitive costs.

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ConversionXL

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Content creation, the engine of inbound marketing, creates the draw (i.e. The end goal, as John details in his course , is to reverse engineer accountability so that marketing is responsible not just for a number of leads but an amount of revenue that various lead types are forecasted to generate. Second, “lead” generation.

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

It's become very clear how this technique applies to products - consumers research their needs by searching this huge information database in the cloud called "Google" and find what products and services might serve their needs and proactively contact and, eventually, purchase those products. Inbound marketing.

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Startup Lessons Learned

MAY 15, 2020

If you can reduce your cost per customer acquisition, if you can connect in a way that expands your email database, adds more customers and allows you to connect in new ways, that's setting a platform for the future for you. Human talent, marketing, engineering, R&D. Things are changing in digital marketing, changing dramatically.

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Ben's Blog

JULY 13, 2010

When the computing architecture moved from Mainframe to Client/Server, hierarchical databases didn’t move with it. Due to radically cheaper computing cycles and storage, the database market moved to the much more easily programmable and more resource intensive relational database model.

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Cloud Architecture Software Review Database 77

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

JUNE 14, 2011

Without a budget to spend on outsourcing content creation, buying domains and web hosting, and marketing the sites to rank well on search engines, this project would have been a non-starter. More recently, I worked on a new project to develop 50 niche websites, all at once. canceling paid subscriptions and more.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 6, 2019

From a personal perspective, this presented a compelling engineering challenge. Meanwhile, I was doing a great job creating content for my website and ranking in the search engines – so good a job, that people wanted to hire me to handle their content and SEO. But I was bad at the “business” of being a motivational speaker.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To build applications we needed databases (Oracle), browsers (Netscape), servers (Sun Microsystems), storage (EMC), security (Semantic), application servers (Apache), caching software, load balancers, hosting facilities, programming languages and methods, CDNs, DSL equipment, Wifi routers and so forth. Welcome to the future.

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mobile.smashingmagazine.com

JANUARY 16, 2013

When computers first gained graphical user interfaces, software engineers helped people make the transition from physical offices to digital files with the metaphor of a desktop. Blocks-to-groups would be a many-to-many database relationship. Letting the system choose the output at the same URL can ban your website from search engines.

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Mobile HTML Flash Software Review 101

Occam's Razor

JULY 1, 2008

What do I mean by that (to those of you who are not database geeks)? If you are willing to create a small portfolio of initiatives then you can get a pretty decent understanding of the hidden impact (offline) of your web presence. Bonus Tip : I tend to think in terms of a portfolio model. Two words: Primary Key.

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ConversionXL

APRIL 15, 2020

Machine learning and AI improve the ability to recognize patterns and pull the right responses from a database. Here’s how it’s done with Google: You patch through the Google Click ID (gclid), let’s say, to your CRM, and record it in the customer database associated with that lead. Many already have been.

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online.wsj.com

JULY 11, 2012

As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. Funds Slide Hits Paulson Ally A former employee who helped John Paulson make billions has lost a large chunk of his personal portfolio by investing with his old boss. Pentagon Weighs Honors Database. Why Register?

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Silicon Valley Founder Software Review Technical Review 42

mashable.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

ScheduleOnce – Scheduling engine to get everyone who needs to meet together at one time. Crowdsourcing, Networking & Community Wild Apricot – Online tools for clubs, associations, and communities that include email newsletters, blogs, discussion forums, a member database and more.

Software Review 78

Software Review Social Media Social Network Software 78

K9 Ventures

MAY 2, 2012

It’s possible that with time to reverse engineer the complicated heuristics I use to optimize my calendar, a human assistant may indeed be able to relieve me of this work. It doesn’t even look up places in a location database. ” Well, I’ve never had an assistant, and I manage my calendar pretty tightly.

Email 80

Email Portfolio Database Video 80

K9 Ventures

MAY 2, 2012

It’s possible that with time to reverse engineer the complicated heuristics I use to optimize my calendar, a human assistant may indeed be able to relieve me of this work. It doesn’t even look up places in a location database. ” Well, I’ve never had an assistant, and I manage my calendar pretty tightly.

Email 80

Email Portfolio Database Video 80

Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

Security, Cloud, NoSQL databases, etc. So the shift from buying a lot of servers and databases and software licenses and networking equipment, the shift instead to just renting it all. Alexia Tsotsis: Do you think that the biggest inefficiencies are at the network layer, the database layer, or the storage layer currently?

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

125 theses so far submitted by investors into the OpenVC database. Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. But you must be doing real engineering of some kind. Out of 125 funds in the database, 33 state they invest in 1 type of technology (e.g. No ideas or prototypes.

Technical Review 78

Technical Review Cofounder Venture Capital B2B 78

online.wsj.com

SEPTEMBER 23, 2012

He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Find opportunities in our business and franchise databases. Engineering & Accounting Svcs. "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Many of the climbers were French or German. Want to be an entrepreneur?

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

I thought about things I never had to as an entrepreneur: check size, ownership percentage, deal stage, portfolio construction and risk. When the market tanked they had the “triage problem&# – which portfolio companies to save, which to kill. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. My prognosis?

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