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

Both Sides of the Table

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. In 2010 somebody posed the question on Quora, “Is Mark Suster a Successful Venture Capitalist?” Working with early-stage teams : coaching, mentoring, setting strategy, rolling up sleeves: 9/10. Since then?

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Raising Seed Capital Now: 10 Tips

Tech Coast Venture Network

Last year, venture capitalists and angels who co-invested with them placed $7 billion into seed and early-stage deals, an 11 percent increase from 2009, according to the most recent PricewaterhouseCoopers/National Venture Capital Association MoneyTree report. million in 2010. million in 2010. million in 2010.

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Social Enterprise Venture Competition

SoCal Tech Calendar

Wednesday, September 22, 2010 -- Social Enterprise Venture Competition. Through the Social Venture Competition, 9 semi-finalist nonprofits competed in a business plan competition, presenting their plans to a panel of business and social investors who provided valuable feedback and coaching to each presenting organization.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

Tech Zulu Event

million, brings the company’s aggregate amount of capital raised to $2.5 Adam Sroka, an agile software innovator, is a self-taught programmer with 25 years of writing code and previously combined his coding skills with his knowledge of agile and lean management techniques as a coach and technical trainer. Founded in 2010 by Eric M.

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Launchpad LA – More Details Revealed

Both Sides of the Table

Applications are due April 6th, 2010, the form is on the website and the Twitter address is @launchpadlad. I set out some simple objectives, picked 13 startup CEO’s, planned a series of events, spent time personally trying to coach people through their fund raising processes and waited to see where it went.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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The San Francisco events will be run by Chris Sacca (of Lowercase Capital ) and Kevin Rose of Digg. ThereNow has build a platform (physical camera + software platform) to help remote coaches help improve teachers. The classroom activities are recorded and the video is appended with comments from a remote coach.

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Is Convertible Debt Preferable to Equity?

Both Sides of the Table

But as an angel you’re usually not only taking risks but also helping the company succeed (through introductions, social proof, coaching, recruiting). In frothy markets (like we’re seeing in August 2010) this happens more frequently. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. In down markets more deals are priced.

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