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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. I know a number of large financial services firm which use Hearsay Systems to empower their employees to use Linkedin and other social media tools in a compliant way. I use this social bookmarking tool to keep a record of useful websites.

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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Mr. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. through the Yahoo! acquisition. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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

David Teten

Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). . #4 5 Jon on 01.08.09