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What’s Your VC Tech Stack? Results from a Survey of Early-Stage VC Funds

David Teten

Mamoon Ismail Khalid, Venture Associate at Quake Capital Partners in New York City, describes their deal sourcing approach as follows: “We use a new Web Interface to collect information from our applicants in a standardized manner. We store it in a logically indexed manner and apply Predictive Analytics on companies’ metadata.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. TCP and the other foundational technologies of the web had that same property, that there was something really computationally especially complicated about them, but it was their social value. How did it come on your radar for the first time? That's an important piece.

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Customers Love Free Stuff … But That’s Not Your Problem

abovethecrowd.com

Also, take a look at this critically important data point , also aggregated by Professor Jay Ritter. These are the parties on the cap table prior to the transaction. I am a member of this group, and I have developed these perspectives over many years of watching from the inside and being equally gullible.

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