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10 Tools for Understanding and Dissecting an Industry

VC Cafe

So he teamed up with a few PhDs and set off to write a book about each major vertical – Healthcare, Technology Media and Telecom, Energy and Industrials, Retail and Consumer Goods, etc. A There’s quite a range of information sources from curated reports to aggregated data. Imagine you could hire a consulting analyst.

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Liquidity Hacking - How to Build a Two-Sided Marketplace

A Crowded Space

Once you have hundreds of thousands of users on the supply side and the demand side, then everything works great. Find aggregators. Find physical aggregators  There are various aggregators in the real world that provide really novel ways to hack liquidity. Focus on a vertical  You started with anything?

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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. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page. 9) Time, market, and exit investment.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

Creativity in our business lives – The average tech startup these days spends time talking with colleagues & investors about a multitude of things: customer acquisition, viral adoption, raising capital, hiring / firing employees, product features, technology trends, marketing / branding, and on and on. If so, why?

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

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. the Untouched Vertical. 3) Raise capital. The VC Software Stack?—?the

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Gatekeepers are overloaded. August 24, 2009 2:17 PM Norbert Mocsnik said. link] August 24, 2009 2:50 PM Quentin said.

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25 Best Startup Failure Post-Mortems of All Time

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Between the worse data aggregation method and the much higher amount of work Wesabe made you do, it was far easier to have a good experience on Mint , and that good experience came far more quickly. Post-Mortem Title : My eHarmony for Hiring Failure. Hiring was a challenge we found difficult throughout the life of our Company.