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Interview: Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder AngelList and Co-Maintainer Venture Hacks

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Messenger : Naval Ravikant, Co-Founder AngelList and Co-Maintainer Venture Hacks. Investor in Twitter, Foursquare, DISQUS, and (by Naval’s own admission) “a lot of other companies you have never heard of”. I recommend you first review Dharmesh’s article and then listen to Naval’s thoughts. Former Founder Epinions.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

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If you track the venture capital industry it would be hard to miss the conversation going on this week over AngelList “Syndicates.” ” And even the venerable Fred Wilson weighed in with how people “ leading vs. following ” in funding rounds play different roles and have different skills. Bowery Capital).

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Interview with Rob Reed, MomentFeed

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The firm announced a funding round last week, from DFJ Frontier, DFJ JAIC, Gold Hill Capital, and angel investors Gil Elbaz (Factual), Auren Hoffman (Rapleaf), and Walter Kortschak (Summit Partners), and many others. Once you start doing that, it also allows you to get a sense of the ROI from that marketing activity.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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He’d been working at a well-funded startup for about a year and had come to terms with the fact that the startup was really a pretty dumb idea. Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Tesla is not. they have purchasing intent ).*.

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Interview with Jonathan Zweig, AppOnboard

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You've been quite an active angel after your successful exit at AdColony. Bill talks about growing up at the Naval Academy with his father, who was an assistant football coach there, and saying that was the most impactful experience on his coaching career. We've experience that with Troy Capital and London Venture Partners.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

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How To Pitch A Product - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , August 4, 2010 I've said a bunch of times on this blog that the perfect pitch is a very short intro to provide context followed immediately by a demo. They are: Fred Wilson: Lead Investors, Dipshit Companies, and Funding Every Entrepreneur. I've funded some myself.

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