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

David Teten

VCs tout themselves as frontier technology investors, but most are using the same infrastructure tools they have used for the past 20+ years: Excel and recent college grads searching Google. According to Knowledge.VC , under 5% of US VCs have a full-time team member focused on technology. . But we’re doing it slowly.

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How Lemming VCs Cause Venture Recessions

Mucker Lab

Let’s not even get started with “on-demand” or “subscription e-commerce.” The expected lull between “seed” and “harvest”. Vertical integration of different funding risks. Just six months ago, VCs were publishing white papers extolling the virtue of non-bank lending startups, but now no one will touch them with a 10-foot pole.

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

David Teten

When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. I’d argue that the same type of technologies that have revolutionized dating can revolutionize our industry. . I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations.

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SXSW Startups: UbiGro

Austin Startup

UbiQD enabled this innovation with safer, cheaper, and more reliable quantum dot technology that it’s licensing from M.I.T., We have struggled to keep up with UbiGro film demand, and so we are planning to significantly expand our production capacity this year. Your team has had incredible reviews on the UbiGro agricultural product.

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37 Entrepreneurs Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

has transformed from a small information technology components firm into a comprehensive and full-service IT computer hardware and support solution provider, servicing over 20,000 clients across the country. It was so bad that I almost wrote my first Yelp review. Today, Aventis Systems, Inc. Thanks to Roni Eshel, goFlow ! #9)

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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

Steve Blank

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. AI in National Security.

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15 Entrepreneurs Share What Makes Their Business Unique

Hearpreneur

Our company is unique in taking an industry that has had very little innovation and created a scalable business model that leverages technology. We realized that the cost of manufacturing of trailers needed to come down and as a result we’ve decided to vertically integrate the manufacturing and building of STERLINGS trailers in Mexico.