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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. blogging, in a sense.

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Why Acceptance of Failure is Critical to Startup Success

Both Sides of the Table

In London when founders failed they were ostracized in the press and culturally I believe it became harder to raise capital. I was interviewed recently by Inc Magazine and they have been publishing snippets of this interview online. Perhaps that’s changed in the decade since I left but that was my experience when I lived there.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

I said, ''Hey, listen were going to start writing this newsletter and it''s going to highlight our trials and tribulations, our failures and our successes. The opening paragraphs of that first newsletter are indicative of the captivating and accessible writing style, which eventually cultivated a huge audience. blogging, in a sense.

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Here’s How to Do PR on a Budget

Both Sides of the Table

Contrary to popular opinion I actually believe crowd-funding is best used after seed capital or venture capital. Obviously you should have somebody that helps you research journalists, gets you meetings, pitches stories, helps prep you for interviews & helps make sure your writing is cogent. In a startup this is a mistake.

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10 Reasons Why Capital Shouldn't Make Or Break Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

By John Williams Fast Company magazine recently reported that PayPal founder Paul Thiel is giving away $100,000 to twenty-four young men and women to finance startup businesses. Thiel is providing his mentees with capital to make their startups a reality. Fancy websites are expensive, but blogs and Facebook pages are free.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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Tonight I was reading a good blog post ( here ) from Sean Powers with Alistair Croll on preparing yourself for the TC50 “bump” – the rise in traffic that a company gets from presenting at TechCrunch 50. DO capitalize on the moment in time while you’re still part of the news cycle. Don’t drink it. Listen to the data.

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Why We Must Have Zero Tolerance for Sexual Misconduct in Venture Capital

Both Sides of the Table

Time Magazine published its “person of the year” edition today and honored “the silence breakers” for speaking up and forcing our society to confront its position towards men in power exploiting their power for sexual gain. Real change is clearly needed. Men must speak up, too. As a VC let me specifically just speak out for our industry.