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

David Teten

To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. . Investors are also mining for leads such sources as: – product crowdfunding sites ( Indiegogo *); – tech communities ( Producthunt ); – angel group platforms ( Gust ); – expert networks (e.g., 1) Manage the firm .

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Startups: Cut the Wheat from the Chaff on Quora

VC Cafe

link] – affiliate and referral programs (my company). Short answer: Start building your community from day one, and put a real emphasis on building it offline. Chatterous is a tool that allows you to set up group chats that integrate with gtalk. uTest – crowd sourced testing. verifyapp - feature feeback. link] – crm.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

I think the title of this post is a TV show, but fitting as there has been much debate in the venture community as to the whether angel investors are good or bad for entrepreneurs and VCs. According to their research, overall returns on group-affiliated angel investments average to a 2.6X The last blogger in Silicon Valley.