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How I Got the Monkey Off My Back – Today Was a Good Day

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As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). 5 years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. ” Yup.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

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But they weren’t there in 2009 when you were up late nights shitting yourself whether you really were smart for pursuing this idea. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. I started by writing 3-4 times / week. I did that?

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Why I Invested in Gogii (textPlus) – My First Ever Later Stage Deal

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This is a post I’ve been dying to write for 18 months. And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Management, SVP North American Sales and SVP European Publishing.

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Think about Performance Before Building a Web Application

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But for the rest of us, those of us lucky/unlucky enough to know we need high-performance, or are uncertain whether performance is a concern, and for whom I write the remainder of this article, performance should be on our minds early. Meanwhile, Amazon famously claimed 1% fewer sales for each additional 100ms of latency.

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Why Most of Your Assumptions About Phone Calls are Wrong

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All the data actually suggests with the growth of mobile, inbound sales calls will double from 30 billion to 60 billion in 3 years (source: Kelsey). 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. PHONE CALLS.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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This is the time it takes for a bankruptcy or asset sale to occur. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. Instead investors are looking for the next flash sale, private sale, game dynamic, social games that rely on mobile platforms with geo-fenced, location aware offers.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. In a world where the economy only heads in one direction (read: 2009-2014) most investors & entrepreneurs forget to pay attention to gross burn. ” I highly recommend reading it.

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