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Why you should never have a data room — the most counter-intuitive fund-raising advice you’ll ever…

Both Sides of the Table

Or if you’re a VC raising from LPs you have to list all of your deals, your investment value, your carrying value, your multiples, your IRRs, TVPIs, DPIs, etc along with net cashflows plus your previous LPAs. These collective sets of documents form the basis of what somebody looking at investing would call “financial due diligence.”

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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

InfoChachkie

’ It’s pretty terrible to have to go to conferences… with people who are talking about… stuff that not only do I know nothing about, but I could give two $hits about.” Mark’s initial venture had a large marketing budget, which allowed him to attend conferences all over the world. Start Lean.

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Building Products for Mass Adoption

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I think this is a perfect way to think about the world when you’re designing your product / company. Quite honestly I see way too many company pitches that are designed for Techies but I only want to invest in products designed for Normals. Anyway, Chris’s blog got me thinking about Techies and Normals.

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With New Program, DARPA To Encourage Safety “Brakes” For Gene Editing

Xconomy

“We should couple innovation with biosecurity,” DARPA program manager Renee Wegrzyn, said Tuesday at the SynBioBeta conference in South San Francisco. ” At the conference, FBI supervisory special agent Ed You told the audience the bureau is aware of the need for new biosecurity measures.

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TechZulu Top 2013 SXSW Panel Picks & More

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It is that time of year again, when the digital and tech world looked up from their busy workload just long enough to make sure that they are “represented” with a kickass submission for a panel or two at the most prestigious conference all year, SXSWi (South by Southwest Interactive Festival). Design and Development.

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How This Entrepreneur Raised $28,000 Using Airbnb to Fund Her Startup

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In one year of Airbnb Tracy netted more than $28,000. Tracy is knowledgeable enough to talk tech and swap design & product stories with other founders, but she realized early that networking amongst this group and reading and writing in their journals would not bring her more customers. So her wedding story had a happy ending.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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Alan Horsager: We started selling the test in October last year, when we launched at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, at their annual conference. We then got some additional funding, of essentially high net worth individuals, not insittutional funds. When did you roll out your tests?

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