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

David Teten

At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Another provider which identifies email addresses of strangers is Contactout.

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The Power of Quora & Why Benchmark was Right to Pay Up

Both Sides of the Table

I wish every blog used Disqus and I wish every website that syndicated content would create an integrated commenting thread the way that Business Insider does. Obviously it is build on a social network “follow people&# model that is asymmetric like Twitter. It’s an awesome implementation. No, really.

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

David Teten

Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. Hilary Mason , Data Scientist in Residence at Accel Partners , has a TED talk on how she replaces herself with a shell script to handle her email deluge. Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development

mashable.com

Billion View Comments How HTML5 Is Aiding in Cross-Platform Development February 22, 2011 by Christina Warren View Comments email share email share The Mobile App Trends Series is sponsored by Sourcebits , a leading product developer for mobile platforms. Reproduction without explicit permission is prohibited. All Rights Reserved.

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. We are typically looking at either smaller exits or require a lower valuation to get a reasonable step-up to a venture round. Steve Bennet.

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How to Raise a Seed Round: Three Basic Tips for Founders

Scott Edward Walker

Emailing or cold-calling them generally doesn’t work. Once you’ve done the hard part to build a network, you now need to do your homework (i.e., In fact, in this new fundraising environment (with syndicates on AngelList , etc.), The hard part, of course, is getting in front of “A” investors to pitch your startup.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Another comment which probably deserves more discussion is around valuation. He also said they typically only invest at a $1 million pre-money valuation or less. My facebook can beat up your facebook.