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

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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. You are going to “study” the details before making a decision. and then asking to take a brochure home with you. Yeah, sure.

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

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“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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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 studied SEOMoz and several other online sources of SEO tips. Instead of doing guest posts on TechCrunch or speaking at startup conferences, Tracy became a regular contributor on wedding and women’s lifestyle blogs. So her wedding story had a happy ending.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

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We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. 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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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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Two weeks after Brad’s post I was at the 140 Conference in LA and I held open office hours for any entrepreneur who wanted to spend 15 minutes talking with a VC about their business. He came to the United States in 2001 to study Software Engineering at Auburn University. I hope that didn’t have a stature of limitation!

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

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It was recommended to me by my friend, Net Jacobsson , who was trying to do some basic Life Hacking. But Net had told me that he picked up some valuable lessons from the book, so I thought, “WTF? And, of course, I check incessantly when I travel, am waiting for a meeting or am sitting in a conference.

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