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Here’s What’s Driving Collaborative Consumption and Where the Market May Head Next

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I broke down the types of CC companies into 5 main buckets today to give a framework to think about your startup if you’re entering this space: 1. That’s why dA has nearly 70 million monthly actives producing 2.5 Venture capital will be easy and then hard. An obvious example of this is oDesk.

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8 Questions to Help Decide if You Should be Raising Money Now

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I thought I’d try to offer a framework for thinking about the topic. So here’s my framework. For many businesses you should keep your costs low & your capital raises low until you discover whether you are really on to a big idea where there is market demand. So how should you decide what to do?

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How Many Investors are Too Many?

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When this first ran on TechCrunch I got the greatest comment in the world that I had to repeat here, “VC’s are like martinis: the first is good, the second one great, and the third is a headache.&# I understand the appeal of having many VC firms on your cap table. I love that. And it’s kind of true.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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As a VC it’s how I think through which markets will be attractive in the future, which ones I want to be in now and how the technology & business world will likely evolve. The creative process - Whenever I need to do any task that requires insight I have to be able to visualize – to literally SEE the decision framework.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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They often are very good at getting information out of people, helping create a framework for making decisions and pushing for support amongst the organization from those that back the decision and those that do not. She’s protecting them from the most intellectually demanding activities. Leaders are intelligent, for sure.

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The Case For & Against Cryptocurrencies (for those tired of all the noise)

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My goal is to lay out a basic framework for anybody unsure whom to listen to as a way of helping you think about a way to orient your own views. Governmental crackdowns Governments regularly use surveillance to track illicit behavior and curb or curtail activities. What I can tell you from my vantage point?

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