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

David Teten

We market to four populations: High-potential founders. I use this social bookmarking tool to keep a record of useful websites. Founders and LPs will read into your personal vacation pictures on instagram, just as much as they’ll consider the amount of time you spend responding to comments on LinkedIn articles.

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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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Social Media Matching

SoCal CTO

Let’s consider some questions I might have: I want to find a co-founder for my startup. That said, we are quickly growing more and more information on background of individuals, tweets, blog posts, social bookmarking, Facebook activity, presentations shared, etc. How do you ensure that both parties get value?

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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.

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

David Teten

I use Hootsuite to coordinate my social media activity, which consists of Teten.com, PEVCTech.com , Linkedin , AngelList , and (passively) Twitter and Facebook. I use Diigo , a social bookmarking tool, to keep a record of useful websites. Capital has built a free online tool for founders to calculate their cost of capital.

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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.). Follow me Startups for the Rest of Us.