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MARCH 10, 2014

My blog had been looking tired for a year or two. I considered changing to a blog publishing platform that would allow me to change the visual design more easily myself. He wrote a nice blog post describing the project to redesign my website. He was able to take Jess’s design concepts and get them built into my blog.

Blogging 294

Blogging Design Venture Capital Screening 294

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JUNE 29, 2014

Fred Wilson wrote a Tweetstorm and then did a blog post on the topic. I never asked Marc why he stopped blogging but I presume it is some combo of having started a venture capital firm (which you might guess takes a bit of time) and also allowing some air time for his then-less-well-known compadre. Engagement.

Social Media 307

Social Media Blogging Media Startup 307

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

I titled this post “We Must Have Zero Tolerance in Venture Capital” but of course I could just say “zero tolerance anywhere” because that’s true. I know many of you won’t feel the safety to write this publicly yourself but I know many, many men have voiced a similar opinion to this blog post to me privately. Men must speak up, too.

Venture Capital 254

Venture Capital Capital Course Report 254

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FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. So Tracy began keeping a blog about … (what else?) She became an authority on the topic and her blog helped her to both elevate her status in her industry as well as to bring great link juice to her website and improve her SEO. She did her first tech startup after the age of 30.

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Startup Entrepreneur SEO Venture Capital 363

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OCTOBER 3, 2011

On my blog I’ve been hesitant to take the topic head on. But last week I noticed a blog post by a woman, Tara Tiger Brown, that asked the question, “ Why Aren’t More Women Commenting on VC Blog Posts? In it she observes that only 3% of the comments on this blog are from women.

Entrepreneur 341

Entrepreneur Venture Capital Startup Blogging 341

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JUNE 1, 2011

I think that’s the beauty of both capitalism and innovation. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago. Building a blog & name recognition is only one small, small part of my job. If you were reading the headlines from only 2.5

Startup 391

Startup Blogging Venture Capital Writing 391

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OCTOBER 14, 2011

If you raise a new round venture capital (say $2.5 His personal blog with some great example is here. The goal is to have the value of the startup go up by enough that you own a smaller percentage of a much larger business and therefore your total personal value goes up. million at a $7.5 million or a gain of $1.1

Startup 394

Startup Newsletter Course Equity 394

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NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Be open & transparent (mimicking the greater social order changes that have come with blogs & social media). When he starts his blog I’ll let you know. So I put the blog on the back burner to stay focused on those busy times. But I miss blogging. I couldn’t believe the quality intro.”

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Venture Capital Startup Blogging Platform 324

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

I have Twitter chats, respond to blog comments, trade emails, respond to comments on This Week in VC. I remember! &# You’re the guy who built the Twitter plug-in for blogs. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice. I speak at conferences where I might meet 75-100 people and have conversations. You get the picture.

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Venture Capital Blogging Conference Email 288

socalTECH

MARCH 18, 2014

near real-time automated intelligence gathering systems that scour public and private data sources like websites, blogs, social media and email to unearth information businesses can use for competitive advantage. bitvore data intelligence gathering venture capital yuri pikover' Bitvore, led by Jeff Curie, said that it has developed a.

Software 227

Software IBM IBM Social Media 227

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NOVEMBER 9, 2014

I have blogged about some of the downside consequences of the changes and the private information I have says the consequences are much worse than is reported in the press since few people publicly talk about. Does he blog about venture capital and try to advise entrepreneurs? Has written a book on venture capital.

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Venture Capital Seed Funding Email Blogging 352

L.A. Business Journal

APRIL 26, 2017

Prominent seed-stage startup investor Chris Sacca announced in a blog post titled “Hanging up my spurs” on Wednesday that he has retired from venture capital investing.

Invest 174

Invest Startup Blogging Venture Capital 174

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JUNE 12, 2013

Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. Early in his days when he was raising capital for DocStoc he came to see me a lot. Think about it – who knows angels the best? ” Be authentic.

Venture Capital 407

Venture Capital Press GRP Partners Blogging 407

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JUNE 8, 2014

Cincinnati, like many startup communities in the US over the past 5 years, has revitalized important regions in its urban core, created accelerators, built co-working facilities, pooled together angel capital, attracted VCs, involved educational institutions and solicited the help of important corporations in a more cohesive ecosystem.

Startup 390

Startup Venture Capital Capital Funding 390

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MARCH 3, 2013

” But I pointed out a professor at HBS ( Tom Eisenmann ) who teaches a course where blogs are a part of the classroom reading material. He spoke about ROCE (return on capital employed). But “on capital employed” encourages companies to push more off balance sheet and thus into offshore & outsourced situations.

Venture Capital 403

Venture Capital Education Offshore Outsource Development 403

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OCTOBER 6, 2012

Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups. And ff Venture Capital cleverly has created a blog where their portofolio companies contribute. 5:30 John: Brands with a proven track record are attracting capital. 500px is in Toronto. SHOW NOTES.

Cornerstone OnDemand 303

Cornerstone OnDemand Venture Capital GRP Partners Startup 303

socalTECH

FEBRUARY 14, 2014

Los Angeles-based online dog sitting marketplace DogVacay appears to be in growth mode, based on a recent notice the company sent out to its blog. DogVacay is venture backed by Foundation Capital, Benchmark, First Round Capital, DAG Ventures and Sherpa Ventures.

Technical Review 191

Technical Review Incubator Blogging Los Angeles 191

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. I am inspired by the constant innovation in our industry by First Round Capital like the Dorm Room Fund , their expansion to Philadelphia (I hope they also have a secret plot to replace Andy Reid while there), the exchange fund and other initiative. I know, I’m weird.

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Venture Capital Conference Ideas Entrepreneur 400

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APRIL 13, 2011

Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. was starting.

Venture Capital 288

Venture Capital Startup Technical Review Software Review 288

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MARCH 24, 2014

As a result I didn’t write my first venture capital check until March 2009 – exactly 5 years ago. I divided success into the phases of venture capital and 18 months into writing my first check here was my view (details on each in the link above). 5 years ago. Sourcing high-quality leads : 9/10. The monkey on my back.

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Venture Capital Downey Writing Press 387

TechCrunch LA

JUNE 10, 2020

“We’ve created the HBCUvc Donor Circle as an opportunity for supporters and individuals to engage in our work and join a long-term strategy toward racial equity in venture capital and technology,” she wrote in the post. It held a city-based internship program with Los Angeles, which connects students to venture capital firms in the area.

Equity 220

Equity Technical Review Venture Capital Blogging 220

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JUNE 27, 2013

Well, the venture capital industry has changed a lot in the past 20 years … and we have too. VC has operated as an “old boys club”, with access to capital often requiring entrance through an elite university engineering department in one of two cities. What’s up with that? Upfront seemed to fit the bill.

Funding 343

Funding Santa Monica Venture Capital Startup 343

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JULY 25, 2010

I recently read a book I’d highly recommend to every reader of this blog called “ Yes, 50 Scientifically Proven Ways to be Persuasive &# by Robert B. Cialdini who is also author of a very well received book called “ Influence &# (which I plan to read).

Guide 293

Guide Funding Venture Capital Technical Review 293

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MAY 7, 2011

Sometime around 2003/04 my technology team turned me on to “Spolsky on Software&# a periodic newsletter served up blog style from Joel Spolsky of FogCreek Software, a maker of bug-tracking software. Blogs weren’t popularized yet so it was an oddity for me to read the founder of a software company spewing out advice.

Software Review 285

Software Review Software Blogging Startup 285

InfoChachkie

APRIL 25, 2011

If you are a leader at a startup and you are reading a business book, you are not closing customers, raising capital, improving your product, or spending time with your loved ones. It has also influenced my thoughts, as evidenced by the six infoChachkie blog entries which reference Art. I was not disapointed. Tricking The Jedi.

Technical Review 279

Technical Review Blogging Class Entrepreneur 279

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JULY 25, 2011

When I first started as a startup CEO in 1999 there were no guides on raising venture capital. This series inspired me to start my blog as a VC. This article originally ran on TechCrunch. tl;dr version: If you’re an entrepreneur or VC or will be working in this industry - buy this. Drag along rights? That sounds fine to me.

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Venture Capital Entrepreneur Guide Blogging 304

TechEmpower

JULY 31, 2023

If your numbers work out, then scaling becomes a question of capital. Then use what you’ve learned in this blog post to decide if the numbers validate your business model, or if you need to rethink your approach. Please write us at blog@techempower.com ! Don’t worry about scaling just yet.

Metrics 260

Metrics Startup Slides Technical Review 260

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

At our mid-year offsite our partnership at Upfront Ventures was discussing what the future of venture capital and the startup ecosystem looked like. No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality.

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Venture Capital Marketing Technical Review Seed Funding 416

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JANUARY 18, 2011

I always try hard to make this blog a place where you can learn lessons rather than an advertisement for portfolio companies. I first met the founder of Pose, Dustin Rosen , when he was a junior person with an LA-based venture capital firm called The Mail Room Fund. We started uploading images of ourselves to our blogs.

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Invest Company Companies Web 2.0 303

socalTECH

JUNE 27, 2013

Despite the increase in startup activity in Southern California, local venture capital funds are still few and far between, and a large chunk of the funding here is still from Sand Hill Road. Being so open, when entrepreneurs think about capital, we want to be top of mind. Tell us about the new fund? Mark Suster: It''s a $200M fund.

Funding 196

Funding Venture Capital Los Angeles Social Media 196

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OCTOBER 19, 2014

International team with development in a country known for building great games and tech companies plus leadership in our home court of LA, one of the monetization capitals of the country. On August 26th I had an equally effusive intro from Ynon Kreiz, also a friend, trusted source and also the CEO of portfolio company Maker Studios.

Funding 373

Funding Technical Review Startup Screening 373

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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. If you work at a company that has raised $20 million in capital or more this is the likely situation unless you had overnight and meteoric growth that gave you the power to hold on to a board majority.

Startup 325

Startup Sales Technical Review Software Review 325

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JULY 12, 2011

Chris Dixon is one of my favorite people in tech and writes one of the few blogs I read religiously. If you like the quick summary notes, please check out Adam’s blog on tech, entrepreneurship & VC as a thank you. If you don’t read it and you care about tech & entrepreneurship, you should.

Technical Review 281

Technical Review Venture Capital Startup Artificial Inteligence 281

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APRIL 17, 2012

In his blog he says, “I responded that I thought it was stupid. Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. My views are pretty well known.

Startup 304

Startup Venture Capital Los Angeles Woodland Hills 304

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MARCH 6, 2011

Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. We then started talking about Dave McClure.

Startup 292

Startup Venture Capital Blogging Summary 292

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NOVEMBER 25, 2014

This blog started from a series of conversations I found myself having over and over again with founders and eventually decided I should just start writing them.It The drive to succeed at all costs. When second place isn’t good enough because we live in winner-take-most markets. Zuckerberg. Larry / Sergey.

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Competition Startup Writing Marketing 394

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DECEMBER 6, 2010

Myths such as &# real companies raise venture capital,&# &# you’re selling out if you sell your company for JUST $15 million,&# or “companies need two co-founders&# need closer examination. But I think that the “group think&# that can sometimes form there creates a sense that there is but one way to skin a cat. True, that.

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