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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. A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. But we’re doing it slowly. Pitchbot.vc

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

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After college Joanne worked for 4 years in retail apparel at Macy’s where she initially managed sales reps on the floor and then worked as a buyer of clothing. You need to keep your database in terms of connections and the people you know. Totally get outside your comfort zone. You need to keep your skills.

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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

Gust

Make your public profile as sexy, comprehensive and enticing as possible, adding a short, well done, elevator pitch video (think “the kind of video you see on great Kickstarter campaigns”) and listing your full management team. And don’t forget the ability to customize your profile’s background.

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Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly

gigaom.com

Ex-Facebookers launch MemSQL to make your database fly. With Facebook engineers, it appears the high-performance database apple doesn’t far fall from the tree. All told, he claims MemSQL performs up to 30 times faster than disk-based databases. Collaboration. By Derrick Harris. 18, 2012, 4:30am PT. 4 Comments.

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Angel Funding Advice

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In LA we have www.socaltech.com but in every market there’s some sort of database. There’s obviously things like www.crunchbase.com and Venture Source, Venture Wire and many others. Find out who funded them – Contact the management teams. Social Network s / Search / Blogs – Obvious, huh?

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How to approach and make an introduction to a VC

This is going to be BIG.

Reality is that we're probably connected in some way anyway through various social networks anyway and I'm very quick to figure out all of those connections to ask about you. I don't mind cold intros at all--but it's hard when I can't figure out who you are in the context of my network. Don't try to skirt the process.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 1) Manage the firm . Before you can actually invest, you have to manage your fund. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.