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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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What price? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. What kind of deals should I be doing?

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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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What price? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). I eventually stumbled on to the best source of high-quality deal flow imaginable – blogging. The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. What kind of deals should I be doing?

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The Perils of Founder Fighting

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I think as a tech industry we have bred a culture that places more emphasis on product excellence than managing human behavior. Yet talk with people at Twitter these days and many seem to feel like they are part of a movement – and that doesn’t just come due to product success. Those are the easy cases.

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The Authoritative Guide to Prorata Rights

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Prorata rights are one of the most important rights of a private market technology investors and yet are seldom fully understood. New investors sometimes want early investors to put in money to “prove” they have confidence in the new price. Because tech companies are getting bigger more quickly than at any time in history.

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Should You Consider Replacing Yourself as CEO?

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Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting. Do we price for volume of consumption or for enterprise integration with other platforms?

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Bio Roundup: Theranos Cuts, Alnylam Stops, Nobel Eats Its Own & More

Xconomy

The firm will now focus on its miniLab, which CEO Elizabeth Holmes touted as a follow-on version of its Edison test system at a scientific conference in August. —The 2016 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine went to Yoshinori Ohsumi of the Tokyo Institute of Technology. PRICE FIGHTS. —The U.S.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

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Yesterday I wrote a blog post about what the role of a board actually is. The board’s job is to review the company’s financial performance and strategy and help provide counsel to the executive team. If they need to dial in make sure they’re on a web conference and you can see them and vice versa. It happens. It’s human nature.

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