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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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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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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

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In 2006 I started using Facebook and most of my friends & colleagues thought I was strange. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. It was a break from information overload of Facebook. They thought it was like MySpace and why did I need a MySpace page? I already have Facebook.”.

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Why I’ve Shifted More Attention to Facebook

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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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Comments are the New Black

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When I sent out 300 invites in early 2006 people thought I was crazy. The power to me was that I had already been blogging about my personal life and my children as well as separately about my startup. This is exactly how Rajat Suri uses Facebook as he outlined in his comment here on my blog. I read almost all of these.

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Attorney and Startup Business Advisor – Aaron Shechet

SoCal CTO

I then went to Pepperdine University School of Law and graduated in 2006 with a Certificate from the Geoffrey H. I can be found on LinkedIn , have a blog Holocognics and my firm’s website is www.SolutionsLLP.com. What are some good posts that I should check out on your blog? I really like the focus of your blog.

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First Ever Startup Weekend Orange County Live!

Tech Zulu Event

He joined Miramar in 2006. Maneesh focuses on the medical information technology markets. He has held senior executive positions with numerous large companies including Matra Space, AP-HP, and the European Commission Information Society. He blogs at startup-marketing.com. Managing Director of Miramar Venture Partners.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. So his Twitter handle is @infoarbitrage and his excellent (must read) blog is Information Arbitrage. True Ventures – When I was raising capital for my second company back in 2006 I had talked to many brand-name VCs and had several term sheets.

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