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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

Both Sides of the Table

By fund II (2007) he was able to raise $15 million (if you watch the video you’ll hear an interesting story of how he did this) and he had a proper fund. And people like Jeff (and his peers) smooth the introduction to and transition process to A-round investors.

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Startup CTO or Developer

SoCal CTO

In December 2007, I described how I commonly take on an Acting CTO Role in a Start-up. What existing systems will we leverage, what programming languages, software development methodologies, web application frameworks, revision control systems, etc.? What technology research is required? What technologies will we use? Accounting?

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How Startups Can Figure Out Sales: Amos Schwartzfarb, TechStars

socalTECH

Donnelly in 2007. Amos Schwartzfarb: My hope is that, at a bare minimum people read it and say, there is a framework here I can use, to use data to test whether what I believe is going to be a company is true. Amos Schwartzfarb: To the degree that it's possible, always use quantifiable metrics.

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