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Visions of Web 3

Version One Ventures

Let’s explore the status and implications of each vertical. . The most interesting that I’ve seen to date is Urbit , a combination of: 1) your own personal server that you can host locally or in the cloud and 2) a completely re-written operating system that is meant to radically simplify current code bloat and exist for centuries.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. They read reviews of the products of target investments.

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Bitesize Tuesday: Tracx, Innovid, Kenshoo, uTest and More Investment Rounds [recap]

VC Cafe

The startup Tracx , which provides a SaaS solution for tracking and managing marketing campaign on social networks, has received an undisclosed investment from Israeli angel Zohar Gilon. uTest has established itself as the world’s largest marketplace for software testing services, with over 25,000 testers in over 160 countries.

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How to Build & Execute a Facebook Marketing Strategy

ConversionXL

Facebook is also the most popular social network with people over 65. As well as the standard About, Photos, and Videos tabs, Buffer includes Reviews, Events, and Community tabs. Interestingly, vertical videos have a higher engagement rate than landscape and square videos. But in the U.S. Image source.

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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Sebastian Soler recently launched Knowledge.vc , which uses software and machine learning to enhance deal sourcing and diligence for VC firms. 5) Due diligence. 4) Manage deal flow.

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The only 2 ways to build a $100 million business

Version One Ventures

Your business has a high viral co-efficient (or perhaps even a network effect) that lets you amass users cheaply without worrying too much about the monetization per user or spending money on paid acquisition. Even more interesting are businesses that create network effects like marketplaces or social networks.

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Q1 Round-up: Portfolio companies in the news

Version One Ventures

And, Outreach , a sales automation tool for SMB and enterprise organizations, was recognized as the top-ranked sales automation/acceleration software by Ambition Sales. . In February, Talentbuddy was acquired by Udemy , an online learning and teaching marketplace headquartered in San Francisco.