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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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Having street smarts with no inspirational ability to build teams can yield a great small business but will be difficult to scale into a large VC-backed business. So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. In the book they profile how VC worked in the early days (60s / 70s).

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

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They now have a strong VC lead from Foundry Group and from experience when you get advice from Foundry it comes with authority, experience, empathy and the right amount of straight talk. Even if one disagrees with the premise, why would anyone feel the need to attack Mike for writing it? His editors can’t be wrong, can they?

Angel 150
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The first 6 steps to homegrowing basic startup analytics | Futuristic Play by @Andrew_Chen

SoCal Delicious

Write me an e-mail and let me know what youre up to! I’ve been asked a few times recently, “Wow, these analytics you write about are great, but how does a startup begin to bite off the relevant parts? Where it might look something like: 1000, profile.photo.update, 1, 9:30AM 3/14/2008. September 18th, 2008 at 8:00 am.

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