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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. Collectively this allows me to generate enough awareness to keep myself top of mind for my target audience. I use this social bookmarking tool to keep a record of useful websites. This is hosted by NFX. I welcome suggestions.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. 2) Market .

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Blogging Nostalgia and my 30 day Challenge

VC Cafe

The early days of Venture Capital Cafe. Part of the magic, was building an audience. Social bookmarking’ was a thing, and you wanted to get your links saved to Del.icio.us. Delicious social bookmarking. Hitting the ‘Publish’ saying “hello world” for the first time was so cool.