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JUNE 22, 2015

Before weighing in on the subject I would point out one thing that should be obvious to many of you – the iPhone was originally launched in 2007 in an exclusive partnership with AT&T and this was vital to both Apple and AT&T and was a hard negotiation throughout 2005 and 2006.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

“I would far rather give out my mobile phone number than my email address.” I shifted my thinking a few years ago after I read Tim Ferris’s book The Four Hour Workweek (link is to a short summary I wrote). He turned me down for a job in 2005. They just don’t do it. I think so. [I

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JANUARY 16, 2012

I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. Executive Summary. Fund raising (as is much of life) is a sale – pure and simple. Three rules in sales: Why buy anything? This narrowing follows the three golden rules of sales: qualify, qualify, qualify.

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AUGUST 9, 2011

tl;dr summary. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. If you want a comprehensive summary of the industry in this era it’s worth a read: VC Ice Age Part 1 – What Happens When a Market Comes to a Standstill? Summary version? I’m long Mobile. Unemployment likely to rise.

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