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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

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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. But I find that the more informed your board is and the more you’re staying on their radar screen the more effective they’ll be for you.

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

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow.

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What Can You Learn from the 4-Hour Workweek?

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If you’re not familiar with the term it’s basically trying to help all of us who are deluged with technology to find ways to cope with the masses of information without having it ruin our lives. I wrote a blog post related to this called Is it Time to Earn or to Learn? We were high tech at the very start of the boom.

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Biotech Roundup: Kadmon Debt, Hemo Data, Loose Lips & More

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Data from a hematology conference stoked dreams of approval, though still on a far horizon, for a couple drug makers. Despite technical differences and the early nature of the data that made comparison difficult, Wall Street declared Spark this week’s winner. You think a Game 7 in the NBA Finals is going to be epic? .

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The Most Obvious Mobile Ad Unit and What the New York Times Got Wrong

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The New York Times recently ran an article titled, “ Tech Companies Leave Phone Calls Behind.” Tech Companies most certainly do take calls. Tech Companies & Calls: I once read a quote on Twitter that said, If you use a tech service for free then product is you. But this article missed the real trend.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

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It’s why I always work hard to find images for my blog posts & why all of my keynote presentations are visual rather than bullet points with words. I want to know how many people, their level of tech sophistication, their age and their interests. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them.

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