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SEPTEMBER 27, 2012

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. Most of what I think about startup communities came from mentorship by Brad Feld through hours of private discussion and debate. You can now take advantage of this wisdom directly as Brad has now published it for everybody in a fantastic new book, “Startup Communities.”

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OCTOBER 5, 2015

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! Wise And Feld To The Rescue. Tell me what you think of it.”.

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JUNE 9, 2014

A version of this article previously appeared in Forbes. If you haven''t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly JohnGreathouse.com articles! I was checking out your YouTube channel and I enjoyed your recent talk with Brad Feld. If that were the case, I would not have been provoked to write this article.

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JULY 9, 2012

This article originally appeared on TechCrunch HERE. If you haven’t already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles! Despite the snarky rumors that Google’s content development program was poorly managed at its outset (e.g., My son recently tried to call one of our older relatives.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Entrepreneurs aren’t born, they’re made.&# The data in this article is at best, a stretch. The paper is surprisingly much more balanced in its assertions than this TechCrunch article. You’re not born into being a world-class software developer. Wadhwa is entitled to his point of view and he may be right. Wadhwa wrote.

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JULY 30, 2012

This article originally appeared on Forbes HERE. I always enjoy a great guerilla marketing story, such as TestFlight’s use of T-shirts and Tacos to gain Steve Jobs’ attention at Apple’s 2011 developers’ conference. If you haven't already subscribed yet, subscribe now for free weekly Infochachkie articles!

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 17, 2010

I was recently interviewed for an article that appeared in Fast Company titled, “ Why you should start a business in LA.&# If you’re interested in the topic it’s worth a read, but I thought I’d elaborate on the topic since it comes up all the time. But we do have great technology developers. You don’t.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009

My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

I think the issue was mostly framed initially by Chris Dixon in his article The Problem with Taking Seed Money from Big VC s. Like Brad Feld I’m syndication agnostic but I have a slight preference toward working with others. This is the nature of compromise. I would expect 2-3 deals out of 10 to hit the A status.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Especially for their stage of development. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. They have done 3 startups in the customer support space and one that wasn’t. So these guys have both deep domain experience as well as tons of startup chops. What was I thinking?

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MARCH 27, 2011

I had been reading Brad Feld’s blog & Fred Wilson’s blog for a couple of years and found them very helpful to my thinking so I honestly just thought I was giving back to the community. So you developed a product for the mommy community? Do you have an application that helps mobile developers build HTML5 apps?

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

This article initially appeared on TechCrunch - with a minor update highlighted in red below. They are either a sign of naive founders or naive investors (because they will quickly develop a reputation in the market and because future investors in that company will all demand your terms, which therefore will include a full ratchet).

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DECEMBER 1, 2010

Equity-Only CTO and Equity-Only Developers - SoCal CTO , November 1, 2010 I had a recent email dialog with the founder of a company looking for a CTO for their startup. Was it a Startup Founder Developer Gap ? We had several emails back and forth where he provided basic details on the concept. The scene will kill you. What went wrong?

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