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Managing the Online Identify of a Venture Capital/Private Equity Firm

Seth Levine has posted the slides from his portion of Thomson Reuters Buyouts recent webinar on "Boosting Returns with Web 2.0 Technology". Also, Buyouts magazine has posted a detailed summary of the panel. You can get a sense of my slides on the deal origination page of my site. VC/PE: Managing Your Online Identity from...

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Fund Management, Market Research, Marketing, Private Equity, Social Media, Venture Capital

CRM Survey of Alternative Asset Community

Touch Ahead Software conducted two separate surveys at both the ACG Intergrowth Conference in Las Vegas and the ACG Growth Conference in Boston in 2009 on the alternative asset community’s CRM use and experience. Download results. Most surprising, EquityTouch found that 37% were using no formal CRM application; instead, they were typically using only Microsoft...

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Fintech, HR tech, Origination, Private Equity, Sales Tech, Social Media, Venture Capital

How to Protect You and Your Company Against Hackers — at No Cost

Twitter’s security meltdown has done a fantastic job of publicizing how vulnerable a modern, cloud-based company can be to a determined hacker. I have been surprised that in the numerous articles about how to protect yourself against hacking, I have seen very little mention of the powerful technique that we discussed in The Virtual Handshake....

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Security, Social Media

Liveblogging The Smart Money of Crowds: Collaborative Investing Startups

I’m liveblogging notes from tonight’s MIT Enterprise Forum event on The Smart Money of Crowds: Collaborative Investing Startups. This was not hard to organize, and I’m very happy with how the event turned out. You can see the Twitter discussion via hashtag MIT0407. Panel Biographies Roger Ehrenberg, Moderator, Managing Partner of IA Capital Partners, LLC...

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Events, Market Research, Public Equities, Social Media, Venture Capital

Content is Dead, Community is King? The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry

My colleague Jesse Mandell took detailed notes on the recent SIIA panel on Brown Bag Lunch: Content is Dead, Community is King? The Promises and Risks of Social Networking in the Information Industry". You can view the web broadcast at no charge here. Panelists: Leslie Forde, VP of Strategic Alliances, Communispace Leslie is a member...

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Social Media

Yahoo Should Not Buy Facebook

Robert Peck of Bear Stearns recently presented on the theme “Yahoo should buy Facebook“, with a rough valuation of Facebook. I have to admit my skepticism of this argument. Yahoo has a history of not taking advantage of its acquisitions (Broadcast.com…). Far cheaper than buying Facebook would be to provide a systematically integrated user experience...

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Social Media
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