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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Through advertising or direct sales, these sites harvest intent. A FB ad targeted at one person (my wife) - Gabriel Weinberg , May 14, 2010 The other day I gave a presentation with Steve Welch on the use of social media in politics. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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

David Teten

Some funds are using intermediaries to help them sell to retail LPs ( Artivest , iCapital Network ). HOF Capital has experimented with using services for targeting institutional LPs ( e.g., CEPRES , Drooms Dealflow , Harvest Exchange , Palico , Trusted Insight ). Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

Steve Blank on Lean Customer Development. Social networking. Social/Sharing. share Powerpoints and docs with customers. Create your own social network. free enterprise social network. Crescendo Networks. Customer Development. Social Commerce.