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

David Teten

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. Michael Yavonditte is CEO of Hashable, a New York startup backed by ff Venture Capital and a number of other leading VCs.

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

David Teten

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . 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. .

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Blogging Nostalgia and my 30 day Challenge

VC Cafe

Blogger in 2005 (courtesy of Internet Time Machine) . The early days of Venture Capital Cafe. Social bookmarking’ was a thing, and you wanted to get your links saved to Del.icio.us. The front page of the Internet?—?Digg. Delicious social bookmarking. To be found you had to get ‘Indexed’.