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

David Teten

Advances in machine learning, specifically natural language processing, have made generating these baseline, aggregate datasets possible, at scale, with high accuracy. Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. 1) Market fund. Most of our companies will need to raise further rounds.

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

David Teten

Many tools designed for B2B marketing in general are also relevant to investors. I previously posted a detailed presentation with sales technology tools useful for B2B sales. It sounds simple; however, very few asset managers actually do it.” Other firms are using Talent Relationship Management tools, e.g., Thrive. .

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Is ?Data? a Business Model? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

Lots of people more forward-thinking than me have rightly said that data is a powerful asset and aggregating, mining, and making it useful will be a core element of many businesses currently being built. So is “data” now a new business model, as some suggest? After all there are various ways to monetize data assets.

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Account-Based Marketing Software & Tools

ConversionXL

Given the number of people involved in B2B decisions, account-wide coverage has value in addition to one-to-one targeting. That’s only one segment of the B2B market. Aggregate that data at an account level to know which accounts to target. The aggregation of individual behavior at a company level was the critical innovation.

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Tech IPOs Are Back ? So Now What? ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The secondary wave of VC-backed IPOs has also come to fruition… both consumer facing (Yelp, Demand Media, Pandora, Carbonite, HomeAway, Angie’s List, et al) and B2B (Jive Software, Brightcove, Imperva, Responsys, etc). The pipeline of companies in registration has continued to grow. Author howerl. Filed under Uncategorized.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

Right now, the only company who’s really innovating is Dwolla, which is starting from the payment layer by aggregating funding sources and will eventually try to position itself as a platform (starting by offering real time cash transfers for free to banks). The product seemingly never evolved to what it could have been. Enough said.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round. Each of those domains would get one point in the aggregated list. The “official” date is June 9 th , 2006 — for those that are curious about such things).