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

David Teten

We’ve seen some modest progress in people upgrading from Excel to Google Sheets; use of some CRM; and a cloud-based storage service. 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.

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Ask a New Investor: Pedro Sorrentino of FundersClub

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About Pedro (from his personal website pedrosorren.com & his words): Pedro Sorrentino is a Venture Associate at FundersClub, focused on early stage and series-A investments. We also connect our strong founder community together. It must be a technology or tech-enabled company. So no pure e-commerce plays, for instance.

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New Web Order - Finding a Technical Co-Founder

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Hang out in tech entrepreneur rich communities. Perhaps the easiest way to find potential technical co-founders is to hang out in both online and offline communities where technical entrepreneurs gather. There are many online tech communities, but here are just a few: Hacker News - Probably a must-engage site. just an example)).

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Conversocial: A case study in thought leadership based marketing

The Equity Kicker

For those of you that don’t know Conversocial is a cloud based service used by brands and retailers to manage and engage with their customers on social media. E.g. their last blog post was Happy Community Manager Appreciation Day! which discussed the importance of having a community manager (i.e. Related articles.

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How can startups engage Amazon and AWS

VC Cafe

After covering Google startup outreach and support (from first hand experience), today I’m happy to add Amazon and AWS, by looking into the variety of ways startups can engage with the commerce and cloud giant. The information in this post was provided and fact checked by AWS managers Moran Nir and Jonno Southam.

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Weekly #FIRGUN Newsletter – July 26 2024

VC Cafe

Great news Merav Bahat and team Dazz on your $50M series B to accelerate AI-powered cloud security remediation! Mazel tov Snir Ben Shimol and team ZEST Security on securing a $5M seed round for your cloud risk resolution platform! There’s a lot to celebrate in our “small” community. Thank you for reading.

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Distribution Advantage

Rob Go

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. Here are a couple examples from our portfolio: Vertical Communities: One of the exciting attributes of GrabCAD in the early days was its rapidly growing, engaged community of mechanical engineers.