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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

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was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. 2012 And Beyond. For instance, I was recently asked by Inc.com to write a weekly column. All the best in 2012 and beyond…. Of these entries, four of them are also in my “all time” Top Ten. Surprisingly, not all of these entries were published in 2011.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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In the latter cases many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely in 05-08 and lately Invite Media, Aardvark, Dodgeball, etc.) If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. Let’s call these cards 1996-99, 2005-08 and 2010+. got picked up early without raising a lot of VC.

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Does the Size of a VC Fund Matter?

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I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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In the latter case many companies (Flickr, Delicious, Blogger, Writely, etc.) If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investors will look great. Let’s call these cards 1996-99 and 2005-08. In the first instance many angels made beaucoup bucks by getting in on deals that IPO’d quickly. So where are we now?

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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Some quick data that I pulled from EmailisNotDead.com (mid 2012). Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. source: Harris Interactive IM Shopping Poll (August 2009)). There are 2.9 billion by 2014.

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Proven | Founder Interview with Pablo Fuentes. Job Markets, & The Future of Mobile

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Pablo Fuentes: It first started in 2009 when I was in business school originally. The current iteration of what we are doing now has been around since 2012. PF: Pascal, the French mathematician and philosopher, back in the day said something like this, “I wrote you a long letter because I did not have time to write you a short one.”

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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by Michael Woolf that is worth any startup founder reading to get a sense of perspective on the reality warp that is startup world during a frothy market such as 1997-1999, 2005-2007 or 2012-2014. (it is also the title of a fabulous book from Internet 1.0 I am not suggesting these are bad sources of capital – they are not.

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