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Three Factors Which Intoxicate Venture Capitalists - Why Your Startup Will (Probably) Not Raise Venture Capital Funding

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Other than shortening the investor’s quarterly commute to your Board meetings, the net benefits of relocating for many startups are illusory, as I describe HERE. I guess no one told him about the medical startups that were purchased by Medtronic, Linvatec, Storz, Mentor, etc.,

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Interview with Mark Suster, GRP Partners

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Mark has also been quite active mentoring entrepreneurs, We caught up with Mark to hear about what kinds of investments GRP is looking at nowadays, his view on the software-as-a-service market, and how best to approach him with a pitch. We've heard quite a bit about your mentoring efforts here, can you talk about that?

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Guy Kawasaki’s Enchantment

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I have used Guy’s previous book, The Art Of The Start (Art ), in my UC Santa Barbara New Venture Creation class for the past five years. Ask For Mentoring. The time spent reading Enchantment will net a significant return. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!