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How Private Equity and Venture Capital Investors Are Eating Their Own Dogfood

David Teten

In venture capital in particular, early-stage companies are often operating in frontier industries, where the rules are unpredictable and conventional analytic frameworks may be misleading. Foundry Group is using their portfolio company Monday to aggregate portfolio companies’ job postings on their own jobs page.

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

David Teten

I walk through below how progressive investors are using technology and analytics throughout all of their operations. We are also seeing technology evaluation as an increasingly important part of LP operational due diligence. To learn more about this space, I suggest join an online community I co-founded, PEVCTech. .

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Asset Management Is A Bizarre Industry Ripe For Disruption

David Teten

This is very different from the way most of us think about investing; in our personal lives and in most operating businesses, investors try to spend as little as possible for the maximum results. In aggregate, angels are significant investors. I believe it’s healthier to stage our investments in a series of modest-size checks.

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Cliff Notes S-1: Kayak ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

How They Do It: Aggregate data from travel data warehouses like ITA as well as indexing travel providers websites, provide this information to consumers in a highly customizable search engine. 2010 Operating Income: $16 million. Filing Date: initial S-1 filed Nov 17, 2010 , updated March 9, 2011. Founding Date: 2004.

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6 in 10 Charities Still Struggling with Volunteer Recruitment: An AI ATS is on a Quest to Empower Recruiters

Transformify

According to recent reports, 6 in 10 charities are struggling to recruit the volunteers necessary to support their operations. Many charities also operate on limited budgets, making it difficult to invest in a dedicated HR team or extensive recruitment efforts.

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Groupon's S-1: From Zero to Like? Billions in 30 Months ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The International segment appears to have similar profitability as the North America business though as it accounted for roughly the same proportion of adjusted operating income. Keep in mind Yipit is an indirect competitor in the daily deals space (essentially a meta aggregator of deals sites), but the analysis is sound IMO.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

Twitter as a company has encouraged this by granting DataSift “re-syndication rights,” which means that the company can ingest the full Twitter fire hose and resell subsets of it to other parties who want to consume a smaller stream, which is more cost effective in data licenses and in IT resources needed to consume the data.

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