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            <title><![CDATA[New Venture Capital Database]]></title>
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        <pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:15:17 +0000</pubDate>
        <dc:creator><![CDATA[Tim Berry]]></dc:creator>
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        <description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve posted here several times about The Funded, which seems to me like an extremely useful database of venture capital firms, with reviews and comments added by entrepreneurs. This is a good resource for those rare high-end startups that are actually real candidates for venture capital. (You know who you are; and, in fact, if...]]></description>
                <content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;ve posted here several times about <a href="http://www.thefunded.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Funded</a>, which seems to me like an extremely useful database of venture capital firms, with reviews and comments added by entrepreneurs. This is a good resource for those rare high-end startups that are actually real candidates for venture capital. (You know who you are; and, in fact, if you have to ask, then you aren&#8217;t.)</p>
<p>Now, apparently, there&#8217;s another good site, with a different approach, but also offering useful related information. My thanks to Guy Kawasaki for his News Flash yesterday on his How to Change the World blog:</p>
<blockquote><p>This morning young Matt Winn told me about a tool he created called the <a href="http://www.punctuative.com/vcdb/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">VCDB</a> (venture capital database).</p>
<p>Indeed, you should check out this tool because it&#8217;s quite useful. You can enter &#8220;bio keywords&#8221; and find venture capitalists. You can also enter locations, and the tool shows you venture capitalists in the area.</p></blockquote>
<p>And as I post this, I&#8217;d like to just add, as a reminder, that the days of sending shotgun blasts of hopeful messages to a database of venture capitalists are &#8212; if they ever even existed in the past, which I doubt &#8212; long, long gone. The correct use of a database like this is to pinpoint investors who might have the right kind of match and interests. You need quality targets, not quantity.</p>
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