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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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Bio Roundup: Opioid Exposé, Gilead’s Gambit, Life Science IPOs & More

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From 2006 to 2012, the number of pills distributed to pharmacies increased by more than 50 percent. The figures were reported by The Washington Post and HD Media, which won a legal battle for access to a federal database that tracks US transactions of controlled substances. In total, 76 billion pills flooded the market.

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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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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. was starting.

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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. They designed the next gen UI for the film The Minority Report. So his Twitter handle is @infoarbitrage and his excellent (must read) blog is Information Arbitrage. When I chose a name for my blog, I spent days thinking through what I wanted to represent.

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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. Goldman release a report on us. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. We were hot.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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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. Total raised: $120.3mm; $43.5mm raised prior to 2006 recap; post-recap, raised $7.7mm; Series B in 2009 for $15mm; – Read more: VentureWire (requires subscription). MetaMarkets.