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New Meetup on Building Tech Tools for Private Equity+VC Investors

David Teten

My colleague Sebastian Soler, software engineer at ff Venture Capital, is leading the launch of a new Meetup with me. Engineers, product managers, and platform managers building tech solutions for private market investing. I asked him to write a guest post: Hi! who use tech solutions in their day-to-day process.

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The State of the Crowdsourcing Union, 2011

crowdSPRING Blog

is the first company to devise s system to effectively crowdsource SEO (search engine optimization) services. Paid search typically involves the use of thousands of keywords and dozens or even hundreds of specifically targeted ads which are delivered when a user types a query into a search engine. A buyer works with the team to plan.

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Interviewing Engineers? Enough with the Whiteboard Coding!

Diego Basch

[Originally posted on July 25, 2011 on the IndexTank blog, now down. There’s a lot of superstition in engineering interviews, and here’s where I need to pull my credentials. I’ve been interviewing software engineers since the 90s. The point of an engineering interview is to figure out if you want to hire a person or not.

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GrabCAD & Professional Communities ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

NextView originally invested in the company’s seed round in the spring of 2011 and we again participated in this latest round along with Atlas Venture. In addition to compelling founders, we were drawn to the company by their vision for a professional community for mechanical engineers and designers. million times.

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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Jon Sebastiani , founder and CEO of KRAVE Jerky , a company that got its start in my class at Berkeley back in 2011 and was recently acquired by Hershey. Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com.

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That Time I Passed on Datadog Because I Didn't Understand the Market

This is going to be BIG.

That was the Datadog pitch in late 2010, my first full year of leading deals, that I got from two software engineers. I even punted on the fundraising by adding them to the Open Angel Forum in February, 2011, giving everyone else an opportunity to do the deal, without leading it myself. Makes sense, no?

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: Exciting Companies Lined Up For Microsoft Startup Grant Finals

ReadWriteStart

Bizosys Technologies, a Bangalore, India based software engineering company was founded in 2009. Guttula, Bizosys' CEO, and Karana founded the company with the goal to "simplify software development." PDT on the following dates: Thursday, June 23, 2011: Register Here. Thursday, June 30, 2011: Register Here.

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