Occam's Razor

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

It is a social network (like Facebook). Be very careful to not over think it when you frame this step-one to your management team. Again, for your management team you don't have to over think it. Now that our management team is bought into one facet of YouTube, is time to dip our toe into a content strategy.

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mashable.com

AUGUST 20, 2011

Brian DiFeo, the Hive’s community manager, says the trend is to be professional but have a sense of humor and be ready for the inevitable group laugh or room-wide joke. Partners W3 EDGE Concentric Sky Rackspace Intridea Dynect DNS Webtrends Global Syndication Partners ABCNews CNN Metro USAToday Yahoo ©2005-2011 Mashable, Inc.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. 1) Manage the firm . This is harder than it sounds.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

A major angel group used Influitive , an advocate management tool, to track, activate and motivate their members. Relationship Science makes it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 4) Manage deal flow. Talent Relationship Management tools (e.g., Pitchbot.vc 5) Due diligence.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

Previously she was Co-Founder and CEO of SNAZZ, a cloud-based event management platform. At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Others follow independent financial lead investors and most require that independent investors be part of the syndicate.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? A Lot of Horn Tooting over a Kazoo sized deal. ► January. (1). How Much Diligence is Due. ▼ 2010. (7). ► October. (2).

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This is going to be BIG.

MARCH 29, 2010

One thing that Chris Fralic and I have been tossing around is the lack of a retailer centric play—where individual retailers can run their own group buys, manage discounts across various sites, run local campaigns across Foursquare, Facebook fan pages, etc. All of the current sites revolve around a centralized curation and sales function.

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Professor VC

JANUARY 17, 2008

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. Don't Stop Believin' Is There Any Truth in "The Social Network"? My facebook can beat up your facebook. The theme of the event was angel investment trends for 2008. ► January.

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VC Adventure

JULY 23, 2013

It’s hard to get people interested in a new social networking idea these days (even those who say that privacy is important). But the reality is that not everyone shares your passion, not everyone is at the right time in their fund, not everyone has time vs. other things their looking at to take a closer look, etc. Any interest?

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Venture Chronicles

APRIL 28, 2011

This is an important debate but it’s still the wrong one… whatever the database architecture is that you commit to, you still need database architects to design and then manage the database interactions. In my mind the more interesting trend is the move to entirely in memory architectures for data management.

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Agile VC

MAY 26, 2011

Online social networking is a concept still being evangelized even in Silicon Valley… Friendster is in private beta (wasn’t until Oct 2003 they received Google acquisition offer which they turned down for Kleiner/Benchmark round). First and foremost, we believed there would be a “professional” social network.

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VC Adventure

JULY 23, 2013

It’s hard to get people interested in a new social networking idea these days (even those who say that privacy is important). But the reality is that not everyone shares your passion, not everyone is at the right time in their fund, not everyone has time vs. other things their looking at to take a closer look, etc. Any interest?

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 22, 2016

It’s true for businesses and professionals who don’t know how to leverage the power of social media and who are ill-equipped to handle the challenges. They have thousands of daily visitors and readers on a regular basis and have managed to create a dedicated following that evangelizes their products. Company blogs are an asset.

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mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

I created {s}hareCLOUD — Private social networks for businesses– with Google in mind. We believe we have created the quintessential, web based, strategic goals and performance management system in GoalTrak(R). Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking.

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Professor VC

JUNE 20, 2011

And this is a company that has managed to get an A+ list of investors and is executing very well. We managed to pull together an angel syndicate and close $450K on 9/30 after working the phones the last few days and anxiously waiting for signature pages to show up on the fax machine and wire confirms to hit the bank account.

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Professor VC

SEPTEMBER 2, 2010

There are several efforts being made to make this process better and will mention a couple below: Angel Capital Association Collaboration Committee - I was a charter member of the this group and the goal is to facilitate syndication among the angel groups via education and tools such as Angelsoft. ► January. (1). ▼ 2010. (7).

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

I use a service like Tout to manage my email templates for quickly replies. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social media marketing. social networking. Global Syndication Partners.

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mashable.com

MAY 5, 2011

But the fact that it managed to get thousands of people to take blind action (before the site even launched) with so much competition for early adopters is quite powerful. Basically international businesses looking forward to network and connect with trusted and verifed companies from developing countries. I think this strategy works.

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mashable.com

JULY 10, 2012

It would take an article in itself to fully compare the benefits of these (and other popular ecommerce site providers), but suffice it to say they both offer options for businesses that do not wish to manage the technical aspects of their ecommerce storefront. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media.

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Agile VC

JUNE 5, 2011

When you’re company is growing >10x year over year, I suppose if management didn’t invest a lot in continued growth their board directors would line them up against the wall. The company is currently unprofitable, though generating meaningful free cash flow. Financial Snapshot: 2010 Revenue: $713M.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 10, 2011

Our goal is to make the enormous volume of real-time information more manageable for the 99% of companies that lack the infrastructure to process these volumes in real time. Think of DataSift as turning the fire-hose into a cost-effective and manageable tap of running water. Not so on Twitter. Twitter is inherently viral.

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Venture Chronicles

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Paul chastises us by saying that morphing Customer Experience Management (CEM) into an enhanced acronym, CXM, does not create a new category, nor does it refresh what has been around for as long as businesses have had customers. CEM/CXM: SOFTWARE OR STRATEGY. First let us take a look at this thing called CXM really is.

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Agile VC

JUNE 25, 2012

Cloze is helping outbound professionals understand and utilize their professional network more comprehensively than ever before. We amass all of this information in our emails, social networks, smartphone address books, and other software tools (e.g. I first met co-founder/CEO Dan Foody a little over six months ago.

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mashable.com

JUNE 30, 2012

David Schoenbach is vice president of product management at Exadel Inc. Social Media Lists. Social Network Lists. Social Media. Social Networking. Social Good. Social Media. social networking. Global Syndication Partners. Like Tweet. Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share.

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SoCal CTO

AUGUST 3, 2010

That’s @MeganBerry to you, blogger and social media expert, marketing manager of Klout.com. Graphs - Chris Dixon , July 22, 2010 It has become customary to use “ graph &# to refer to the underlying data structures at social networks like Facebook. The process is called mass syndication, or a party round.

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