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MARCH 23, 2015

My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. We talk a lot about his schooling, his early jobs as a developer and then as a VC and we talk about his decision to spend winters in Los Angeles.

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APRIL 5, 2010

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. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs. Her response?

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. That is true of all my blog posts. It is what I love the most about debates and one of the things I love most about blogging. I suspect Mr. Wadhwa used hyperbole in his TechCrunch blog post to get more readers to look at his work. So it is with entrepreneurship.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2011

And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. But I never gave up.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It's like WordPress, but instead of blogging, it provides an online community, which is self-hosted. We're trying to build a center-of-mass on the East side, to draw talented developers and designers, to recruit more effectively, and reinvest in the local ecosystem. SocialEngine is a white-label, community platform.

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MARCH 2, 2010

After a few days of controversial blog posts I thought I’d try something more light hearted today. I hope some day to emulate Brad Feld in this area. From his blog posting on “ Why Am I passing ?&#. As he now invests in “themes&# it is easier to politely turn down intros that aren’t relevant.

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MARCH 27, 2011

By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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JUNE 9, 2010

Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. They’re deep into Customer Development ,” he said.

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JANUARY 22, 2013

It was based on an excellent book I had just read by Brad Feld & Amy Batchelor (his wife). Anyway, as I winnowed my way through the comments section of my blog post on relationships I realized my own wife has posted a response! Respect and develop a positive working relationship with his co-workers.

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APRIL 21, 2010

Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Especially for their stage of development. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. Blogging has gone through many iterations. Blogging has gone through many iterations. 16.2mm in Series C.

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JANUARY 13, 2011

I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. In VC there are the obvious people including Bijan, Brad Feld, Fred Wilson, Josh Kopelman and Bryce Roberts. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post? That notes only told part of the story. I’m sure there are many more. Beautifully written.

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AUGUST 1, 2010

If you don’t understand the concept of “signaling&# please read the blog post I wrote on Understanding VC signaling. From the debate on VentureHacks, our offline chats and from our blog posts, I think that Chris Dixon and I are pretty much 98% aligned on the topic. This is the nature of compromise.

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JANUARY 21, 2010

I recently read a post over on VentureHacks titled, “ Top Ten Reasons Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers &# written by Scott Walker (who blogs on legal issues for entrepreneurs ). I know he’s smart but you wouldn’t hire a Javascript developer to do your database design – would you? And Brad Feld.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series “ Pitching a VC “ There’s a great meme developing this morning on the need to simplify funding terms and documents. That prompted Fred Wilson’s blog post appealing to the industry to make these simplified term sheets standard. I have this mentality, too.

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MAY 15, 2010

He is the author of “ Joel on Software ” and I was a reader nearly 10 years ago when I had never heard of Fred Wilson, Brad Feld and VentureHacks didn’t exist. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. He had a version of StackOverflow installed here and I thought it was a great resource for entrepreneurs.

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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 ? few years ago I also started following Alexander Osterwalder in his blog about his Business Model Generation -mantra.

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AUGUST 25, 2011

Experiences way beyond any hack-a-thon, startup blog or your current company engagement can enrich your thinking and challenge you to think more broadly about the solutions you offer in the market. I love reading Eric Reis, Steve Blank, Clay Christenson, Brad Feld and others. Often it’s not the best course. It globalizes.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

I started blogging because Brad Feld blogged. It turned into this blog. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. years as a software developer I decided I wanted a change. years where I developed skills building distributed systems over networks. He asked for nothing.

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JANUARY 20, 2013

Brad Feld seems to write books faster than I can read and write about them. These were amongst some of the most read blog posts I have written, which shows me that the stress, pressures and loneliness of being and entrepreneur resonates. Brad was married and divorced in his early 20′s. But with living this way.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2016

There are too many to mention but I’ve noticed them all on Twitter, Facebook, blogs and people who have emailed or texted me. Hunter Walk, Brad Feld, Chris Sacca and Kara Swisher are just a few. I’m grateful they have all spoken up. Many others have, too. She’s a competitive athlete.

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