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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. The CTO should always be looking for a better way to do things and inspiring the developers to do the same.

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

David Teten

I use another live Google doc to maintain my database of companies I’m marketing to other VCs. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. I’ve used Asana extensively to manage activities firm-wide.

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

David Teten

However, about 5% of the VCs in our database, mostly younger ones, are trying to build a competitive advantage by crawling large amounts of publicly available data and building analytical functions to flag companies with accelerating traction to them. Cobalt helps GPs to optimize their fundraising strategy.

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Head in the Cloud

Venture Chronicles

2) Database Architecture. There was a brief conversation about big data as it relates to database architecture, as in relational vs. non-relational (e.g. These images and videos are then propagated through the many social networks that we participate in.

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16 Tips for Picking the Perfect Startup Name

mashable.com

Pinterest is probably the best tool for this, given its robust database of high-quality images, but you can also use e-commerce sites like Etsy or a simple image search on one of the major search engines. You’ve probably already used this trick when a username is taken on one of the big social networking sites. Social Media.

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Why I’m Doubling Down on the Twitter Ecosystem

Both Sides of the Table

DataSift has a product that builds a permanent database for you of just the information you want to capture. DataSift is one of only two companies today that has the rights to re-syndicate the way it does. They know this because Twitter is social, open & asymmetric. What does that mean? Not so on Twitter.

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