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13 tech trends to adopt before the year’s end

The Next Web

Pinterest is going to be the website to watch, along with other image-based social networking, search and sales websites. While it’s still early-stage, I’m excited to continue following this space. Niche-Based Social Networks. Valuations Aren’t Going Away. Doreen Bloch , Poshly Inc.

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

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners.

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The Big VC Thaw – Why The Market is Moving Again (part 2 of 3)

Both Sides of the Table

There’s no doubt (at least anecdotally) that the pace of VC investments in early-stage technology companies has picked up in the past few months. I hear from several sources that Sequoia is very active in the market aggressively chasing several deals and even driving up prices on some early-stage deals.

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

David Teten

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Data companies focused on early-stage startups include Aingel , fundsUP , Preseries , PredictLeads , and Sploda. The Pocket Negotiator is very early-stage attempt to aid in the negotiating process itself.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

While currently free to angel groups, their business model revolves around aggregating the angel investment data. If my math is correct, this is approximately a 31% IRR, which has to beat individual angel investments on aggregate and venture capital returns over the period of the study (1990-2007). return on investment after 3.5

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

techcrunch.com

According to VCs, there’s been a 65% decrease in up-rounds (where a company gets a bigger valuation) in the last six months and more than 60% of those polled expect a longer wait for an exit. Been there Done that This is very depressing for all future founders, or even currently early stage founders. Add to this that 72.7%

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Startup Resources

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VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Social networking. Social/Sharing. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Seed Stage Valuation Guide. aggregation. VC & Startup Resources. Seed Startups. Google Ads.