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

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. 2) Market .

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

The customer validation phase is critical for that kind of thing. We were doing Social bookmarking around health and wellness products. Caroline: Number five is not talking to customers. ” And I say, “Oh, what do your customers think?” You need to go out and do some customer development.

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). hourly rate. 25 Ezra on 01.08.09