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

David Teten

Coalesce address the more general problem of searching through large data sets for best fits. Pacer is useful to search prior litigation, bankruptcies, etc. ff Venture Capital hired two full-time engineers to build out Totem. TruthFinder and Intelius provide basic background vetting. Fincura specializes in serving lenders.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

Some angel investors join together in syndicates. For example, a seed firmshould be able to give advice about how to approach VCs, which VCsobviously dont need to do; whereas VCs should be able to giveadvice about how to hire an "executive team," which is not an issuein the seed stage. Startups valuations aresupposed to rise over time.