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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. Other VCs use Klout * to identify relevant influencers who can evangelize their ideas and Contently * or Social Native (HOF Capital company) to create relevant content.

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GPT-3:  An AI That Makes Cars, Not Wrenches And What It Means For The Legal Profession

YoungUpstarts

AI is getting tremendous attention and significant venture capital, but AI tools frequently underwhelm in the trenches. At least, all substantive publicly available documents in huge portions of the internet, which at this point in history represents a material segment of all expressed human knowledge.

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Why Has LA Suddenly Gotten So Much Attention from VCs and Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

Given how efficient markets are when a large market like LA starts to blossom it attracts capital pretty quickly. billion in venture capital to LA’s technology startups and 2014 will shatter that figure. He built & sold iMall in Internet 1.0 In the last full year where we have data LA attracted $1.5

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This Quarter in Venture Capital: Dealflow and Funding At Highest Level in 9 Quarters

ReadWriteStart

The venture capital database CB Insights has just released its report of investment from the second quarter of 2011, and based on the deals it's tracked, venture capital funding is at a nine-quarter high - both in terms of the amount of funding and the number of deals.

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73.6% of all Statistics are Made Up

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Fortunately I was mostly a technology consultant, which meant that I coded computers, designed databases and planned system integration projects. We were looking at all sorts of strategic decisions that Sony was considering, which required analysis and data on broadband networks, Internet portas and mobile handsets/networks.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

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You need to keep your database in terms of connections and the people you know. “The Internet saved my life. The Internet really re-connected Joanne with her former working self. On being a woman, becoming a mom & forming a sense of identity [20-45 ]. You need to keep your skills.

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Report on Q3 VC Investment Finds Funding Down for Internet Companies

ReadWriteStart

Venture capital database VentureDeal has released its report on investment trends for the third quarter of 2010. During the third quarter, the report finds total funding for Internet companies down by 14% and the number of companies funded down by 6%. The report says that 343 Internet companies raised $1.8

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