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Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Both Sides of the Table

On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which represents participants from all of the top venture capital firms in Southern California as well as prominent members of the Tech Coast Angels (TCA). We feature a prominent speaker at every event.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

What tech stack should a microinfluencer use? Many investors including me spend most of our day doing the same things people have always done in our job: in my case, due diligence, deal execution, etc. Tech stack. I record here the books I’ve read, not as diligently as I should. Goodreads. I’m not active there.

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How to Create a Marketing Playbook for Consistent Campaigns

ConversionXL

Top marketers are 414% more likely to report success when they document their strategy, according to CoSchedule’s 2022 Trend Report. A marketing playbook, in the traditional sense, is an internal document. Treat your playbook as a living document rather than something set in stone. A playbook does exactly this. Content creation.

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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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Unintended Consequences: When SAFE and Convertible Notes Go Awry

Pascal's View

Andrew Krowne and I recently co-wrote an article in Tech Crunch , Why SAFE Notes Are Not Safe for Entrepreneurs. The easiest way to do so is via SAFE notes, due to their simplicity, “available online” documentation, no major covenants established to protect the investors, no governance implications at the board level, etc.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Heres my diagnosis of his problem: He has some automated tests, but his team doesnt have a continuous integration server or practice TDD. And has the tension goes down, it will be easier to get the whole team (including the MBAs) to embrace TDD and other good practices as further refinements. Good luck, engineering manager.

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Does Your New Year’s Resolution Include Reorganizing Your Data? Cross That Off The List Right Now!

YoungUpstarts

A search engine can instantly search terabytes of your documents, emails, online data, etc. That way, an index can hold ordinary documents, email files and web-based data enabling integrated search. If you have documents in different languages, no problem. The same concept also works for your own data.

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