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

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. 9% (1 / 12). Source: Knowledge.VC , based on scraping firm websites . 1) Market fund.

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Introducing our latest investment: Mattermark – Big Data Comes to VC

Version One Ventures

The net effect is powerful: it empowers all of us (no matter who we are or where we are) to learn more quickly, make better decisions, and operate more efficiently. start-up databases/networks like CrunchBase and AngelList ) has led to unparalleled access to investment capital as more seed funds, angels, and syndicates emerge on the scene.

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

David Teten

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide.

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This Week in VC with Om Malik & Paul Jozefak

Both Sides of the Table

We talked about the negative effect of Apple’s closed system attitude but how that will be a gift to the market because Apple’s cracking of the operator hegemony has forced the industry to innovate. Network of vertical focused sites: BeachMint, BeachMint, WineMint, etc.; first vertical to launch by 2010 Holiday Season.

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Demand Generation: Turning Tactics into Strategy

ConversionXL

Bogdanovich, who’s worked with dozens of companies on Salesforce integration and marketing automation, sketched an order of operations for data acquisition and deployment in demand gen campaigns: Bring clean data into the CRM. That leads to hundreds of lists, no clear segmentation, and a database management nightmare. Sophistication.

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Preparing Websites For The Unexpected | Smashing Mobile

mobile.smashingmagazine.com

I am new to the industry and decided my original portfolio will be mostly made up of “responsive sites” and older sites coverted to this article’s theme. The system would choose the appropriate group for each situation (mobile device held vertically, wide screen TV, spoken aloud, user preference, whatever comes next).

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Bringing Transparency to Startup Data: Our Data Repository Project

Version One Ventures

Others are looking for baseline information on operational expenses (i.e. Mission : To provide answers to those questions that founders/operators frequently ask their investors and peers, and to replace anecdotes with data-supported answers. 2: Privately held operational. 4: Publicly available operational.