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This Week in VC with Mo Koyfman of Spark Capital

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We both felt that the critical reasoning skills and writing skills were critical to our career development. Google Analytics vs. Facebook’s new analytics tool. BookRenter – plus a discussion about Chegg … what is going on in the university book market? Online text book rental service. Total raised: $16.0mm.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

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This is a theme that comes up in one the most influential business books for me of the past decade, The Black Swan by Nassim Taleb where he talks about the role that luck plays in business success. Would Google have become today’s juggernaut without Yahoo! I started by writing 3-4 times / week.

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Productivity Hacks: Voicemail, Folders & To-Do’s

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I recently wrote a post about avoiding the “ Deferred Life Plan &# and some related thoughts about personal productivity that came from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Workweek. I’d like to offer you two “life hacks&# that I implemented in 2009 and one that I’m test driving in 2010.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I’ve been meaning to write this post since September of last year when Brad Feld first wrote about the The Founders Visa Movement. I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. At the time he granted me permission to write about his story. Felipe grew up in Brazil. Crazy, huh?

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Launchpad LA – 10 Startup Companies to Watch

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The VC’s & executives were then asked to make “commitments&# (in writing) to 3-5 of the companies that they felt they could make some sort of contribution to. We had software executives from Google, Yahoo!, We had executives from the studios like Fox, Warner Bros and Disney. You must watch this short video.

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What Most People Don’t Understand About How Startup Companies are Valued

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Brad was openly writing about this and it felt like he was giving the VC playbook away for free! We write about $40 million of first-checks into new deals / year and about $40 million of follow-on investments. As you can see below, investments have skyrocketed – up 300% since 2009. But let me be even more clear.

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. But I didn’t write it for you; I wrote it for myself. How to Take Down Facebook -- Hint: It Ain't Twitter. but: Something is Still Missing.