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    Dec212006

    Venture Deal: Your guide to Venture Capital, but no RSS feed.

    Posted on DateThu, December 21, 2006 at 9:11 AM in

    vd_logo.gifVenture Deal

    These guys are showing up as ads in some of my rss feeds so I gave them a click drive by.

    I love the three big buttons, the bottom one of which is for service firms so they can find funded companies and immediately proceed to shorten your runway. As Borat says, "very nice".

    Here's what they say they do: VentureDeal is an online database that gives subscribers the latest information about technology-related venture capital transactions and dealmakers in the United States and Israel.

    You can trust VentureDeal. All deal information content is sourced from publicly disclosed documents within hours of publication. Our consistent attention to detail and ongoing, multiple-review quality control process provide you with the assurance of quality information.

    While they have a blog, Venture Deal has no general RSS feed. You're going to have to use one of the four buttons they post. What's up with that? and...

    Does anyone in this field but me get tired of the 10 ways to get money from an investor series that includes gems like... it takes time, and get a personal referral... I'll bet I can list the next 7.

    1. Get a stellar advisory board.
    2. Passionate, startup experienced, & trustworthy management
    3. Bootstrap your way to success.
    4. Big Big Market
    5. Scalable to infinity & beyond
    6. Tell them your happy to be replaced.
    7. Tell they you have answers to India & China.

    Maybe I'm just cranky.  But a site with no rss feed can do that to a guy.

    But I'll leave a trackback anyway. 

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    It gets really annoying when a site has no feed. I subscribe to any site I find interesting, but if there is no feed that site pretty much guaranteed that I will never visit again. I am sure others feel the same way, so by not having a feed you lose a lot of traffic.
    12.26 | Unregistered CommenterChris Sandberg
    Jeff,

    Thanks for your constructive comments on VentureDeal. You're right about the general RSS feed button not being on the site - it's in a soon-to-be-live update.

    FYI, the general RSS feed url for the deals & news stories is: http://www.venturedeal.com/rss/rssfeed.xml.

    VentureDeal is about two months new and we're continuing to build out the user-friendly features and meaningful content of the site. The site came about as a result of my dissatisfaction with transaction information while evaluating investment opportunities over the past few years as an angel investor in the Band of Angels.

    Best,

    Don Jones
    CEO
    12.27 | Unregistered CommenterDon Jones

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