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Top Ten infoChachkie Entries Of 2011

InfoChachkie

I began publishing my blog in 2008. was published in 2009 and Time Wounds All Heels was written in 2008. 10 Rookie Mistakes You Won’t Make. For the first couple years, I wrote under the pseudonym Uncle Saul. I was hesitant to use my own name, as I did not want my blog to be perceived as a self-promotional vanity project.

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Upfront Ventures Adds Hamet Watt as New Investment Partner

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He first came to see me in 2008 when we was raising money for his 1st startup – NextMedium. He had made some structural mistakes in NextMedium that meant the Cap Table and leadership team was a bit wacky. At every entrepreneur event I through between 2008-2012 I invite Hamet because he was a great mentor for entrepreneurs.

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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

InfoChachkie

However, they seldom acknowledge their mistakes. What’s The Worst Mistake? Mistakes can be categorized as “false positives” or “false negatives.” There were no unicorns in sight on April 14th, 2008 when Kevin O'Connor, my Partner Jim Andelman and I met Twilio's Founder and CEO, Jeff Lawson. > -jeff.

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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. In 2008 they raised a much larger fund $132.5 Twitter wanted to raise money for this new venture at a pre-money valuation which was quite a bit higher than First Round’s $10 million limit. What are the most common mistakes in first pitch?

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Never Hire Job Hoppers. Never. They Make Terrible Employees

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If I’m sent a stack of 10 resumes the first thing I look for is how long the person has been at their past 4-5 jobs. So you combine my generation of cynics with the GenY generation of &# entitlement&# (until 2008 – you only saw BOOM years other than a short dot-com blip). I regretted it. All of ‘em are under 40 (i.e.,

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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But knowing the right people and knowing a market only works well for angel investors in bullish tech markets in which IPO’s happen quickly (97-99) or where larger companies are actively scooping up little tiny companies at sub $50 million valuations to drive innovation (05-08, 10-?).

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Los Angeles Speaking Series #3: “Mistakes People Make Before Starting a New Business”

Jason Nazar

This month’s talk will be on “ 10 Mistakes People Make Before Starting a New Business&#. I wrote this presentation (purposefully harsh/comical) a year ago to help convey some of the mistakes I’ve most commonly seen and made myself. Thursday, January 15, 2008 - 6:30pm - 8:00pm. Cost: FREE.