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The Changing Structure of the VC Industry

Both Sides of the Table

We all have one-click purchase power (Apple, Google, Amazon, eBay). Just 3 years ago there was talk of institutional investors “not being able to write small enough checks.” Many pension funds are simply too large to write small checks and favor the ability to write $50-100 million checks to funds.

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What Angel Investing & Florida Condos Have in Common

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Argument two says, “big companies can’t innovate anymore so Google, Apple, Microsoft, etc. Remember it was only 2008 where Microsoft and even Google were laying off employees. But I’ll judge the angel class of 2009/2010 on a 7-10 year time horizon. I was very active in 2009 / early 2010.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. But I have some.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010. It made me laugh because the technical world has this exact phrase to talk in computing sense about the need to block out interruptions in order to complete a task.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

SoCal CTO

I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Write things down.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I decided to put both of those issues to bed in 2010. China is indelibly an important part of the future of the global technology system. There are other great VC’s in SoCal and there is always the allure of the NorCal guys flying down and talking about how they invested in Google, Facebook, Yahoo! Write things down.