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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Nikhil Kalghatgi is an early-stage Venture Capitalist at SoftBank Capital and is based in NYC. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. through the Yahoo!

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites.