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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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5 Tips to Becoming a More Customer Centric Organization

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Tim encouraged us to set up a blog and start talking openly about what we were doing as a company and inviting comments. This was 2006 and we were now working on our second company. But I had been reading Munjal Shah’s blog about his experiences at Riya (later renamed Like.com) and this openess had an appeal to me.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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He’s also candid, humble and helpful. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. They sponsor TWiVC. MetaMarkets.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006.

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Interview: Thorsten von Eicken of RightScale

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I thought the analogy was preposterous back in 2006-2007 but it has become obvious. In the summer of 2006 over a cup of Peet’s Coffee, you told me about this new thing called “cloud computing” and that you were trying to come up with a creative way to incorporate it into the curriculum of your upcoming UCSB Computer Science class.

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LA Tech Startup Innovators and Fun Facts

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Fun Fact: One of the most prominent figures from their firm, Mark Suster t, runs a blog startups follow religiously. Founded in London in 2006, the Hub is a global network of social enterprises with each individual chapter acting as a gathering place for innovation, technology, creativity, and positive change. E-Commerce: Nasty Gal.

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Bio Roundup: Clinical Shirkers, AMD Worriers, ASH Fallers & More

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The next time you open a beer, a bottle of wine, or break bread, salute the humble yeast that helped make it, and give a thought to Lindquist, who saw a world of possibility in that yeast. Since 2006, 45 percent of all trials registered on the U.S. Our condolences go out to Lindquist’s friends and family.