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

YoungUpstarts

In the real world, downloading a search engine is a more realistic option to finding data. The Internet isn’t organized, but you can instantly find what you are looking for using an online search engine. A search engine can instantly search terabytes of your documents, emails, online data, etc. One New Year’s Resolution… done!

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3 Tips To Help Small Businesses Get More Customers In A Post-Google Search World

YoungUpstarts

By Trevor Sumner, Chief Technology Officer of LocalVox. Almost half of local business listings have basic errors in Name, Address and Phone number – what’s called NAP in the search engine world. Additionally, it is critical to make sure to syndicate out descriptions rich with keywords. com (mostly service industry).

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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

The key reason for the explosion in capital flowing into the industry, and therefore the large increase in practitioners, had nothing to do with 1970’s performance, early stage investing, or technology. So contrary to the piece, it wasn’t VC were good at early stage technology, it was that they had newfound capital and a big exit window.

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Lessons Learned: The engineering manager's lament

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, October 20, 2008 The engineering managers lament I was inspired to write The product managers lament while meeting with a startup struggling to figure out what had gone wrong with their product development process. This engineering manager is a smart guy, and very experienced.

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The NextView Ventures Manifesto

View from Seed

Amidst the rise of new funds, new technologies, and potentially disruptive late stage players, I thought it was important to share what we consider to be our core operating principles here at NextView. . It’s been an interesting several years in the early stage venture eco-system, and the sands have shifted considerably.

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Startup Investor Makes a Deal: Engineers for Equity

mashable.com

But a new angel fund is hoping that they’ll do the same in exchange for engineering talent. The shortage of startup technical talent, especially in New York City, has been well-documented. Have an account? “Once that product is built, you will probably have given away a lot of equity.&# Kayserian believes they will.

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