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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Of the first four investments I made as a VC in 2009, two have exited and two (Invoca & GumGum) still are independent and likely to produce $billion++ outcomes . innovated in social media advertising and for a variety of reasons wasn’t ultimately successful and went to zero. My first ever investment as a VC was Invoca.

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How long can Zuckerberg afford to bankroll the AR/VR market?

TechCrunch LA

The company’s stock tanked by more than 26 percent, representing a $230 billion reduction in market cap and a $31 billion drop in Zuckerberg’s personal net worth. The double-digit drop actually came from Meta’s earnings report which investors feared would be indicative of a broader revenue slump across social media stocks.

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8 Startup Lessons You Could Learn from Gotham Gal

Both Sides of the Table

It’s easy to think that the wife of a well-known & successful VC ( Fred Wilson ) would have had an easy and storied life of wealth and privilege. That’s why I was so interested in having “ The Gotham Gal &# come on This Week in VC ( video link on YouTube , download iTunes, episode 15) ) and dispel those myths.

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Discussion Creation Among Bloggers - LinkedIn, Blogging and Discussion Groups

SoCal CTO

I am in the middle of writing up some of my thoughts on this and will post about it and let you know. I have to say that it has netted far more than I would have thought. Los Angeles Social Media Starters What is Visible Networking? And, I dont like to copy and paste. He has twenty years’ experience as a CTO.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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Entrepreneurs Need to Find the Best ‘Curators’

Startup Professionals Musings

These days, we all have to rely on a few trusted sources to digest and filter information, net out the relevant messages, and steer us with links to accurate details. They write and tweet every day, with the single guiding credibility and personality that the new social culture demands. Both Sides of the Table , by Mark Suster.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

some fun, big tech issues like privacy, net neutrality, location-based services and real-time data. Part 1: Inside the mind of an angel investor and how it differs from professional seed investors and VC. Entrepreneurs should also use social media (Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.) Net neutrality (1:09:00).

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