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

David Teten

But in business, you want a lot of partners. In the private equity universe, most Partners have primary training as deal-makers, not as managers. Point Nine Capital uses 15Five for continuous employee feedback. See Bessemer Venture Partners’ A comprehensive guide to security for startups. 1) Manage the firm .

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

David Teten

They’re taking a $1m check from me, or giving $5m to me as a limited partner. Other coinvestors: Limited partners, other VCs who are coinvestors, private equity funds which are potential growth-stage investors, etc. High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Jourdan Urbach, Managing Partner of Brandt & Co.

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

David Teten

Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mike Yavonditte, CEO, Hashable. through the Yahoo!

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Expenses You Don't Think of When Starting a Business

Software By Rob

The comments here and on a few social bookmarking sites mentioned that you could quit your day job if you wanted to, and that you could live on $2500/month just fine in many cities in the world (although in my hypothetical situation I was speaking about a developer based in the hypothetical U.S.). 5 Jon on 01.08.09