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Entrepreneurial ecosystems: Reflections on Toronto and Silicon Valley

On May 26th, I attended the C2 conference in Montreal, joining my good friend Harley Finkelstein (Shopify), along with Magaly Charbonneau…

3 min readMay 31, 2017

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What’s our NPS as investors?

A few weeks ago, Forbes released their annual Midas List of Top Tech Investors, recognizing those investors who have backed unicorns and…

4 min readMay 11, 2017

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Bringing Transparency to Startup Data: Our Data Repository Project

Two months ago, I first introduced my vision to create a startup data repository. Since then, I’ve chatted with many of you who share the…

3 min readMar 29, 2017

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Bringing Transparency to Startup Data: Our Data Repository Project

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Do you need data engineering before data science?

Last week, I shared some lessons learned from a Domino Data Science Pop-up that I attended a month ago. There were some very important…

2 min readMar 23, 2017

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Takeaways from the Domino Data Science Pop-up: Defining a data scientist

Three weeks ago, I had the pleasure of attending the Domino Data Science Pop-up, which was one of the best days of talks on data science…

5 min readMar 15, 2017

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Takeaways from the Domino Data Science Pop-up: Defining a data scientist

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“Understanding Social Platforms,” now summarized in a presentation deck

Two months ago, we published our second eBook, Understanding Social Platforms. In it, we discuss the dynamics of each social platform type…

1 min readFeb 22, 2017

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My next chapter of VC: More data!

On the heels of being named principal last week, I am humbled by Boris’s announcement and thrilled to begin leading deals for Version One…

3 min readFeb 7, 2017

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Revisiting the Engagement Pyramid

Back in 2014, I blogged about building a user engagement pyramid for social platforms, inspired by Fred Wilson’s 100/10/1 rule.

3 min readJan 24, 2017

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Revisiting the Engagement Pyramid

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A Year in Review: 2016

This has been an important year for us as a firm, as well as the market in general. We couldn’t begin any recap of 2016 without focusing on…

4 min readDec 14, 2016

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Announcing our second eBook: Understanding Social Platforms

If you have been following our blog or firm, you know how much we love network effects. Our investment thesis is centered around network…

2 min readDec 7, 2016

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Announcing our second eBook: Understanding Social Platforms

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Angela Tran Kingyens

Angela Tran Kingyens

Values- and data-driven early-stage investor @VersionOneVC, people developer, engineer, Torontonian, Ultimate Frisbee player, and hockey fan.

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