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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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San Diego’s KnuEdge, Stealthy Since 2005, Unveils Neural Tech

Xconomy

In a statement released yesterday, Goldin said the company founded in 2005 as Intellisis and now known as KnuEdge set out “to create technologies that will in essence alter how humans interact with machines, and enable next-generation computing capabilities.”

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One Book Every Entrepreneur and VC Should Own

Both Sides of the Table

VCs were negotiating with asymmetric information. I was significantly wiser by 2005 when I started my second company. This series inspired me to start my blog as a VC. I think the industry works better when all sides are informed. Let’s get rid of the information asymmetry problem. There was no guide.

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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

Both Sides of the Table

And I’m going to cross post this entire post on Facebook as an experiment rather than just posting a link on FB and trying to drive people to my blog. So if you’re reading this on Facebook (or on my blog!) Others had very few connections and they used it to share personal information. I was always more the latter.

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Google Cleaning Out Their Closets

Tech Zulu Event

Matt Eichner, General Manager, Global Enterprise Search in a blog post says;” Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives. Another service, iGoogle launched in 2005 will be switched off on 1 st November 2013. iGoogle at the moment cannot compete with newer apps on platforms like Chrome and Android .

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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals

InfoChachkie

Even though I have raised significant venture capital as an entrepreneur and have participated in dozens of transactions as an investor, I still found the book to be informative, especially with regard to the dilutive impact of some of the more onerous deal terms that we avoid at Rincon Ventures. free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Mentors-Plus-Capital Programs – Intense Incubation

Startup Professionals Musings

Then we do our very best to make sure that they build a broad set of relationships that will be continuing sources of interpreted information, that they have a full complement of Mentors to assist them as they make tough decisions Well, here’s an important follow-on story. He blogs at www.startwithmoxie.com.