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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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Traction is the new IP

Version One Ventures

“Traction is the new IP ” sums up perfectly how the technology space has evolved over the past decade due to the nature of the web. Consumerization of IT has accelerated the pace of software adoption in the enterprise, placing greater significance on market traction and momentum. Let’s take my own portfolio as an example.

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Cracking The Code: Popular Media: the key to viral marketing

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. Popular Media: the key to viral marketing. The following chart compare the impact of the tsunami in 2005 on the website traffic vs. the viral marketing campaign that they launched in 2007 with Popular Media.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

If you want to understand the details of why this is, I covered it in detail in this post, Understanding Changes in the Software Industry. It’s also worth noting as data would suggest from this SVB venture funding report, lower costs to build tech & operate businesses implies the possibility of lower loss ratios in portfolios.

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Cracking The Code: SaaS Multiples: Recovery or Bubble?

Cracking the Code

Thoughts from a Venture Capitalist on Software, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Internet and more. In comparison, the overall technology sector growth was projected at 9-10% in early 2010 and this forecast did not change significantly today. Portfolio. (3). software. (10). Cracking The Code.

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The Everyday Economy Is Not a Vertical Strategy

View from Seed

We believe that the internet is a super-technology, and are most excited about the second-order effects that this super-technology will have on everyday life for everyday people. As a monitoring and analytics software for DevOps, there are relatively few end users that live in their software day in and day out.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

Most people I think at least in the technology community know you as the inventor of Soylent and the company by the same name. I did study computer science, and I love software, especially open source software, but I just like the challenge of hardware. Eric Ries : Tell us a little bit about your background.