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APRIL 2, 2010

I’m writing this series because if you better understand how VC firms work you can better target which firms make sense for you to speak with. I’m writing this post to explain to entrepreneurs what you should be thinking about in terms of the VC’s you approach and the size and stage of their funds.

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APRIL 13, 2011

Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. Or, as always, summary notes available below. Is that when it became big?

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MARCH 25, 2016

It says that selling an airplane ticket for $500 and getting paid a $5 fees by the airlines (1% gross margin) is not the same thing as selling $500 of software that you built (>90% gross margin). The questions that a VC mulls before writing a check are precisely the questions you should be asking yourself. Market Size.

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JUNE 22, 2011

I will write more about this in the next 2 weeks. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. I said that I felt that Micro-VCs were the most important change in our industry. I believe that. Bubbles are not all bad.

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SoCal Delicious

JANUARY 15, 2010

For example, you can transform your longish and ugly dynamic URIs into short (but keyword rich) URIs, and more. For example when you operate a WordPress blog, you could code nearly everthing below in your 404 page (consider alternatives ). You need to take care of errors yourself.

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DECEMBER 9, 2010

One obvious example is the OSI model in which we have seven layers ranging from the physical layer at the bottom of the stack (e.g. That is excluding a single line of code or paying any salaries. When I started my second company in 2005 we decided to do everything differently. Let’s take some examples.

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