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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. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. But we’re doing it slowly.

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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. Social Networks. Collaboration. By Derrick Harris. 4 Comments.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

Both Sides of the Table

You need to keep your database in terms of connections and the people you know. After seeing “The Social Network&# there is an increased attitude amongst this generation (of women) that … why not go into startups? On being a woman, becoming a mom & forming a sense of identity [20-45 ].

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

Gust

Because Gust is the word’s most comprehensive database of high-growth startup companies (in terms of size, larger than Crunchbase and AngelList combined), it is increasingly used as a source for third party listings and directories. Gust takes advantage of the cloud, and you should, too.

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Angel Funding Advice

Both Sides of the Table

All deals – especially (but not only) those that got venture funded. 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. Lists are available everywhere.

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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.

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Angel Investors want to fall in love

Austin Startup

Leverage your local network and social network to figure out who the most active local angel investors are. Look for potential angel investors in your university alumni network or other associations you are part of. Look for potential angel investors in your university alumni network or other associations you are part of.