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When Hiring Entrepreneurs, Ignore Their Resumes

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When you are interviewing candidates during the early stages of your startup, who is far more important than what, because the tasks the candidate previously performed may only be partially applicable to the role they will play at your adVenture. As made clear in Optimistically Pessimistic , most entrepreneurs’ experiences are not linear.

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Entrepreneurs Should Create A Degree – Not Buy One Off The Rack

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Entrepreneurs create their own jobs, why shouldn’t they also create their own degrees? As described in Should Millennial Entrepreneurs Skip College? most young entrepreneurs benefit greatly from the college experience. When trying to cobble together a startup degree, consider the following categories of classes.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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*. If you are a 20-something tech entrepreneur you could be forgiven for thinking that seed-stage investors, Angellist Syndicates and widely available angel money always existed. It is, of course, a very recent phenomenon. Jeff and his peer group have done an excellent job at creating a new category of seed-stage VC.

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The One Video Every Silicon Valley Investor Should Watch

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And of course he’s right. The video is simply amazing and is a must watch for any investor but I think will be enjoyed by all entrepreneurs, too. Tristan Walker spoke of his journey from the projects to Wall Street to Stanford to entrepreneur. ” – Earvin Magic Johnson. And we shouldn’t deny it.

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AirPush's Asher Delug: Bootstrapping Your Way To $100M

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To hear how he bootstrapped the company to that size, we caught up with Asher earlier this week for a quick interview. One big new category for us is data and targeting. There are many other things I can''t yet talk about of course, but you will see lots of big news over the next couple of quarters. READ MORE>>.

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Catching Up With Eli Portnoy, Sense360

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For this morning's interview, we had a chat with Eli Portnoy , the CEO and founder of Culver City-based Sense360 (www.sense360.com), Portnoy is a serial entrepreneur, having previously founded ThinkNear, a startup which went from the Techstars startup accelerator to an exit in only 14 months.

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What I’ve Learned from Fred Wilson

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While this clip is only 1-minute long we talk about it more in the full interview. My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. It’s easy to invest in today’s momentum categories.