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

David Teten

Other VCs use Contently * or Social Native * to create relevant content. Meyler Capital is taking the analytical rigor of modern internet marketing and applying it to fund marketing. . I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. 3) Raise capital. An example of a tech-enabled VC is Corl.

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Social Media Matching

SoCal CTO

People seem to be missing the really big picture of the value of social media and really the Internet for that matter. They look at how current social networking sites work and how online and offline relationships currently work and make the assumption that this represents the value proposition. Call it relationship inflation.

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

David Teten

Dave Tisch, Founder & Managing Director, TechStars NYC. 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. Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital.

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How and Why I Still Use Delicious

Duct Tape Marketing

Well, actually all Yahoo really did was make it Delicious.com, but fortunately they sold the technology to AVOS , a company founded by YouTube founders Chad Hurley and Steve Chen. I still use Delicious every day to bookmark and automatically publish content to the web via RSS and I think you should too. Content discovery.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

Read also: Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. Peter: Yeah, that’s a perfect question for a recent article we posted called Q&A with Business Incubator Co-founder Joe Maruschak. We were doing Social bookmarking around health and wellness products. The single founder is the second reason.

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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.). Internet - $20-60/month.