Blogging Competition Demo Writing 
Both Sides of the Table
OCTOBER 19, 2009
On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.
Both Sides of the Table
JANUARY 13, 2011
I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I’m comfortable with introductions and then getting into the demo.&#. I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. And did I really just try to drop an SAT word into my blog post?
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Both Sides of the Table
MARCH 31, 2012
Jeff (also an HBS alum) co-teaches the LTV course with Professor Eisenmann about a student of theirs who had written a blog post about sales taking on some of my previous assertions. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style.
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JANUARY 18, 2014
Sometimes those motives are positive (they really want the chance to work with you, they think you have unique skills) and sometimes they are less positive (their first-tier of “go to” referrals passed on the deal, they don’t want to write another check themselves, etc.). I seek out great entrepreneurs. End of story.
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MARCH 22, 2010
Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. It got me thinking, which for me is always the sign of a good blog post. In my blog I just save that for the comments where people can say what their perspectives are. Given a choice of your marketing person or talking to you (the founder) there’s no competition.
InfoChachkie
DECEMBER 10, 2012
The team subsequently earned a coveted position in Launchpad LA's current accelerator class after winning the Crowdstart LA competition. The best way to 'game the system' is simply to develop a genuinely interesting and useful product, or blog post, open source library, etc., to actionable user feedback, "Just went through the demo.
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MAY 13, 2018
If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million. This goes into the heart of my controversial blog post (coming soon!
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