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

David Teten

Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. LPs, coinvestors, and press use these tools, so I work for free for these data vendors to make sure that their data about our activities is correct.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

If you believe in it – then finance whatever you can yourself. If you’re getting 2% upgrade to paid, but 15% monthly churn, then you need to spend more time on the Pro features to insure the cost benefit is there. How can I lower my apps churn rate? Other sources of capital. Government grants – Credit cards / debt.