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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

Both Sides of the Table

If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” My favorite new VC blogger, Hunter Walk, weighed in with some thoughtful comments about how Syndicates might actually pit, “ angel vs. angel.” Must be doing something right!

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

By Trevor Sumner, Chief Technology Officer of LocalVox. Additionally, it is critical to make sure to syndicate out descriptions rich with keywords. 88% of consumers trust online reviews as much as personal recommendations 2. Yelp (the most popular local review app and powers Apple Maps). com (mostly service industry).

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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

5 Lessons from 150 startup pitches - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , July 11, 2010 I just reviewed several hundred startup pitches for Capital Factory. The collapse of the IPO market and dysfunctional math in the venture capital community has stacked the odds against you. Not that I blame you! Here’s why.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. One needs to be in during bull markets and bear markets. What is one to do?

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

AGILEVC My idle thoughts on tech startups. Last week ZipCar began trading and has a market cap of about $1 billion. Now that Google’s acquisition of ITA is closed, following lenghty FTC review, it would appear Kayak is poised to proceed with their IPO in the coming months. =. How to Evaluate Firms for a Seed VC.