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

David Teten

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. If you have one, please contact me. 7) Negotiate .

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

David Teten

Prior to joining First Round in early 2006, Mr. Fralic was VP of Business Development at social bookmarking and tagging company del.icio.us Christopher Fralic, Managing Partner, First Round Capital. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. through the Yahoo!

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How To Outsource Better Than I Did

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

I gave her some videos on how to write articles, comment on blogs, tweet about my business, do social bookmarking, do keyword research and a few other things. I chose him because his portfolio was awesome, and his hourly rate was pretty low – significantly lower than the other bidders. She was also very affordable.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. I’ve listed below my current social media toolkit. I use this social bookmarking tool to keep a record of useful websites. Tech stack. Crunchbase.

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Episode 8: Charlie’s Bcast Email, Startup Incubators, and 10 Reasons Why Startups Fail | The Bcast

Up and Running

After that company failed, I went on and interviewed a bunch of investors that I had met and also some other CEO’s who had failed companies prior to their successes now and asked them, “Why did these companies fail in your portfolio?” We were doing Social bookmarking around health and wellness products.

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A Step-By-Step Guide On How To Build A Profitable Niche Content Website

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

No matter what you are involved with today, you can easily establish a niche website to add yet another passive stream of income to your portfolio and further diversify your risk across several income baskets. I love this topic because anyone can do it in any subject or niche. I hope you find it helpful in your own entrepreneur’s journey.

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