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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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Sustainable Strategies for Internet Startup Success

Startup Professionals Musings

In a recent book by business technologies guru Joe Wozny, “ The Digital Dollar: Sustainable Strategies for Online Success ,” I found a good summary of the top strategies, with some practical advice on how to implement them: Understand what’s in a name on the Internet. Engage your audience with social media. Do them all.

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

David Teten

Our focus is on sharing information on technologies and systems that make investing in private companies more efficient and effective. . I use this social bookmarking tool to keep a record of useful websites. Inside the murky world of social media influencer talent representation. . I’m known as “the Supply Chain guy.”

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

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Previously he was CEO of Quigo Technologies, a contextual ad network, which he sold to AOL for a reported $340m+.

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The Power of Twitter in Information Discovery

Both Sides of the Table

I think some of this stems from the early days of Twitter when it was presumed that it was a technology to tell people what you ate for lunch. The delicious bookmarking was open so that anybody could see what you had bookmarked and commonly bookmarked things could rise to the top. I guess it wasn’t in their DNA.

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Why My Search Engine Use Is Dwindling and Why Yours Will Too

Duct Tape Marketing

My use of search engine technology is slowly being replaced by the use of apps that provide me with answers relevant to my personal needs. This trend highlights the marketers need to go beyond SEO and PPC and move even deeper into the worlds of social networks, mobile marketing and app based local marketplaces.

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How and Why I Still Use Delicious

Duct Tape Marketing

Well, actually all Yahoo really did was make it Delicious.com, but fortunately they sold the technology to AVOS , a company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. I still use Delicious every day to bookmark and automatically publish content to the web via RSS and I think you should too. Auto publishing.

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