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SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

I thought I’d try to look at it from a different lens, that of the entrepreneur. As an entrepreneur you should assume that. Have you looked at competition? How well financed is the competition? So what is an entrepreneur to do? I sometimes ask entrepreneurs. It makes my post even more poignant. __.

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Pricing Entrepreneur Technical Review Venture Capital 292

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DECEMBER 16, 2014

As I like to say when asked, “For entrepreneurs you generally need to go to 2-3 cities max and probably pitch 5-15 investors. Or perhaps VCs like to carefully guard who has bankrolled them so as not to attract competition? Just like with entrepreneurs – you know that raising money is just the start. And daunting.

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MAY 5, 2011

I’m an entrepreneur at heart so I’m always inspired when I hear stories about innovation. It’s why my investment philosophy is called, “ the entrepreneur thesis.&#. He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving.

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Venture Capital Technical Review Startup Press 317

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APRIL 3, 2010

I know many super experienced entrepreneurs who don’t understand the basics of how fund size and age can affect them so I thought it was worth establishing a baseline. In a world of The Funded, VentureHacks and entrepreneur blogs this kind of informations spreads like wildfire. As always it comes down to competition.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Pricing Invest 265

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JUNE 1, 2015

I often tell people I learned more about how to become an entrepreneur by being president of my fraternity than any college course I ever took or any paid job I ever had. Gen X’ers are pretty well profiled but I can tell you we were all grateful just to have jobs and pay our bills. I was competitive. I hated losing.

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OCTOBER 10, 2010

It’s an important film and the most important topic of our generation if we as a country want to remain competitive in a world that has globalized. I poured myself into planning and I won the class-wide competition. I graduated this class and at all of 16 years old wanted to be an entrepreneur. Please go see the film.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

I am very grateful to my friend Zoli Erdos for finding this retro posting for me at web.archive.org. My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. Page 3: Competition. My blog was wiped out.

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