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You Shouldn’t Have to Pay to Talk To Your Own Customers

Austin Startup

Stories of injustices made right via social media are frequent, if not altogether common. And there are definitely some good guys out there – like Prefinery , BatchBlue , Beanstalk , Chargify , Freshbooks , and Harvest , that make open data a commitment, not just a buzzword, and are growing quickly as a result.

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

David Teten

“We’re using … TinyLetter for our “Content Newsletter” … and Buffer to schedule social media posts. Point Nine Capital uses Mention for media monitoring. I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook.

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Lean LaunchPad – For Deep Science and Technology

Steve Blank

The existing winter quarter of the class remains the same as we taught for the last 10 years – taking all students’ projects – e-commerce, social media, web, and mobile apps. Ended in Week 10 as autonomous button mushroom harvesting. Ended in Week 10 as a B2C platform for scheduling on-demand at-home senior care.

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

David Teten

HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). The majority of funds are using the popular B2C websites and services for basic due diligence, e.g., Linkedin, Twitter, HackerNews. 6) Negotiate deal.