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“Their baseline knowledge of Silicon Valley probably comes from HBO’s Silicon Valley.” How Alyssa Bereznak Covers Tech for The Ringer.

Hunter Walker

Alyssa Bereznak covers tech for The Ringer and her reporting appeals to me for the same reasons. You can read her stuff here but before you click away, here are Five Questions I asked her: Hunter Walk: The Ringer isn’t a “tech site” but (kiss up alert), you’re one of my favorite tech culture writers.

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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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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. .” Year in, year out.

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How Startups Can Use Metrics to Drive Success

Both Sides of the Table

Only one guy in the room knew – their tech lead. Once you churn a user due to stability or performance problems it can be hard to get them back. Usually you have a catch-all bucket for “direct” or similar that often came through PR or word-of-mouth. The biggest limitation we tech consumers have is our time. In 6 months?

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Cracking The Code: State of the SaaS 13: Q1 2010 Sentiment

Cracking the Code

Given the lag in GAAP revenue recognition, the Q4 09 revenues are indicating an increased productivity in Q3 2009 (we have unfortunately to look backward due to the GAAP revenue recognition model), but the trend is very encouraging. In search of Europe's next tech stars. Impact of the recession on SaaS Sales&Marketing pr.

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

David Teten

VCs are at the forefront of technological disruption, funding many of the latest cutting edge productivity tools. Clint Korver, Partner at Ulu Ventures , remarked: “I’d compare this technology transformation as akin to what happened in public company investing. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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Facebook Advertising / Marketing: Best Metrics, ROI, Business Value

Occam's Razor

The number of PR people you can now fire because your Facebook page is such an awesome PR platform – not. Declaring success based on measuring Likes in aggregate is like declaring success after getting a lot of Visits to your site. But not, ever, in aggregate.]. Aggregate impact on your Facebook brand page?

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