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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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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.

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The Case for Optimism and Risk at Startups

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uBeam’s tech does work and I have safely seen it demo’d in the real life many times. Even bigger is the desire to stick one’s middle finger up at all of the people who doubted you all along. Are we right in all of our assumptions and diligence? One is reminded of the famous quote often attributed Mark Twain.

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How to Get Busy People to Take Action When You Send an Email

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State your most important ask up front. If there are multiple parts to the email try to break it up into sections. When emails get a bit longer due to background info I often break it up into sections (as I am doing in this post). The best way to do this is to set up the bulk of your email message as a general message.

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

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Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. Brad on blogging. How did you start blogging? “My In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. was starting.

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Open Angel Forum San Fran – Team Calacanis Raises the Bar

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Jason Calacanis started this initiative in response to the pay-to-play network of angel events that he despised. I suppose I should keep it to myself but I guess Jason will be helping to hype up all the companies anyways. Marco Zappacosta served up an cogent, business focused and nicely demo’d pitch of their product.

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Do Less. More.

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I rarely talk to any startup entrepreneur or VC who doesn’t feel it and somehow long for simpler times despite the benefits we all enjoy from increased enthusiasm for our sector. And even this can’t stop their employees from fleeing after two years of vesting to move on to the next hot startup.

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Interview with Idris Manley, NativeTung

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It's another big week for startup launches, this time in San Diego at DEMOfall. We've been two years in development, and are excited to provide a revolutionary platform for web sites, blogs, and social sites to create and grow their international business. It also supports blogs. How did you start NativeTung?

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