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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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Essential Startup Funding Tips from 8 Seasoned Investors

mashable.com

Here’s an overview: Mitch Kapor: Kapor is founding partner of Kapor Capital , a firm that invests in seed and early stage startups. Brad Feld: Feld is co-founder and managing director of Foundry Group, a Boulder, Colorado venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investments ranging from $250,000 to $500,000.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe covers early stage Israeli and European tech & mobile startups. Startups for startups – the top B2B tools used by Startups – Includes the list of top 50 startup vendors in 2012 by Vendorstack , a reviews and Q&A platform on enterprise vendors for startups and mid-market companies. Social networking.

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30 Israeli Startups Compete to Win IBM SmartCamp [List]

VC Cafe

IBM Global Entrepreneur , the computer giant’s entrepreneurship outreach arm is looking for the smartest early stage startups around the globe that will help solve tomorrow’s problems. Seculert - provides a cloud-based security software as a service model ( SaaS ).

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Distribution Advantage

Rob Go

I was asked recently how NextView evaluates such early stage companies for investment. As a vertical community, the business of GrabCAD was never going to look like that of a social network or social media company. The reality is that pretty much all investors looks for the same core things.

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Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010

SoCal CTO

So, I’ve had about 4 years on the “inside” of a fast-growing, venture-backed B2B SaaS startup. Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. The first step is admitting you have a problem.