Hollywood Invest Press Venture Capital 
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NOVEMBER 14, 2010
They have marked-up paper gains propped up by an over excited venture capital market that has validated their investments. Logic tells me the following: It is hard to make money angel investing. We jockey to make sure the press release has our names on it. For venture capitalists this isn’t troubling.
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APRIL 23, 2017
Very, very few founders have an easy time despite what you read in the press. The perverse nature of raising capital is that “no’s” almost always precede “yeses” because it’s very easy for a VC to tell you that you’re not a good fit without doing any real work to evaluate your company so you hear “no” far before others start doing more work.
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NOVEMBER 5, 2012
But the narrative in the press about Al Gore was that he was a smarmy know-it-all. Bush had the opposite narrative in the press. Obviously press narratives of people are characterizations that seldom match reality. In a VC pitch this type of messaging will do just fine. It was a journalist who covered Venture Capital.
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SEPTEMBER 9, 2009
This is part of my ongoing series, “ Pitching a VC.&#. I recently wrote a blog post here in which I argued that the best VC meetings are discussions and not sales pitches. I hope that when you’re presenting to a VC this will give you some sense of what might be going on in our minds. Both presenters are anonymized.
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NOVEMBER 23, 2012
And I’m a VC. It’s going to get you some press buzz – sure. If your product is great and you are reasonable at marketing then customers will find you, you will get adoption, the press will build authentic buzz and celebrities will use your product. I live in LA. Here’s why: 1. For 5 minutes.
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JULY 27, 2013
What I loved about the founding team from day 1 was that the founders were all people who tried to break into Hollywood and found the system closed. Seth is one of the most decent human beings in the venture industry so the rant was off base. You got your tech press and your parents are proud. Take Maker Studios. Confidence.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2016
I recently sat down with Troy Carter to talk about what he does and why he believes it is applicable to venture capital. And more recently he has turned that into a fund called CrossCulture VC such that many in Silicon Valley and beyond now know Troy as well. We used to call that ‘racism!’ He said that.
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