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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. The presenter comes out of the meeting proud at having gotten through all 30 slides (and maybe even a demo) with a bunch of smiling faces and nodding heads and no discussion. After the sales meetings I would ask the exec afterward, “how do you think it went?&#

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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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. “My

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Hacking Hacker News – How Wily Startups Leverage Social News Sites

InfoChachkie

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. that is attractive to that particular community.". More Feedback, Less Neglect. You definitely have a nice start. Hacker Downside.

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5 things Silicon Valley gets wrong about Southern California

SoCal Delicious

blog comments powered by Disqus. Star Trek Contest. Primary Menu. Skip to primary content. Skip to secondary content. Newsletters. Live at the Apple Event: iPad Mini (and more?). Huge news: Millions of PHP developers can now build mobile apps for iOS and Android — in PHP. 10 New York City startups we’re crazy about. 11 hrs ago.