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Secret Venture Capital Tools I use at the Office

7/2/2018

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Here is a listing of the secret venture capital tools I use at the office:

Tools
Nimbix
Traxo

Diligence
Crunchbase
Everlaw
IBM Watson
Quandl
VB Profiles
In house tools, models and other

Infrastructure
Apple 27” Thunderbolt Monitor
Apple MacBook Pro 15” (3.1 GHz i7, 16GB RAM, 2TB SSD)
AWS (several tools)
Bond
Cloze
Dropbox
Google Analytics
Google Contacts
Google Domains (DNS: SPF, DKIM, DMARC)
Google Voice
Google Webmaster
Hotjar
IFTTT
Kickbox
LastPass
Open DNS
Postmark DMARC
Quill Engage
Scanable
Segment.com
Startup Hire
Textio
Uber Conference
VirusTotal
Weebly
Whoapp
x.ai

Software
Facebook
Google Sheets
Grammerly
Hiya
Hootsuite
LinkedIn
Mac Calendar
Mac Mail
MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint)
macOS High Sierra
QuickBooks
QuickBooks Payroll
Spritzlet
TrueCaller
Xcode

News
Axios Pro Rata
Brainspace
CB Insights
Cnet
Dallas Business Journal
Fortune’s TermSheet
Google Alerts (with RSS too)
HPC Wire
Light Reading
Mattermark
MIT Tech Review
NVCA Smartbrief
OpenLP
PitchBook
Preqin
Recode
Stratechery
TechCrunch
The Information
Twitter
VentureBeat
Visual Capitalist
Wired
various blogs

The secret is that there is no secret tool. Venture investing is hard research and diligence, utilizing years of experience as an engineer and at venture firms seeing thousands of companies. Anyone can write a check to a startup company, but the hard part is determining which company to fund and then helping the entrepreneur grow the business.
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