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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. . When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

To be a startup, a company hasto be a product business, not a service business. Angels whove made money in technology are preferable,for two reasons: they understand your situation, and theyre asource of contacts and advice. Standard, schmandard; the whole industry is only a fewdecades old, and rapidly evolving. Whendel.icio.us