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Three Words Entrepreneurs (and VC’s) Should Take to Heart

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For me, after nearly a decade in the trenches of being an entrepreneur I felt I was un-brainwashed from trying to pretend I had all the answers. The more self-assured the VC is and the more impressionable the entrepreneur is the worse the outcome. ” I’ve already blogged about how I work through this process: I triangulate.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

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In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch. In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. But how can you invest in technology unless you’re going to use the tools and understand them?

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One Man’s Signal is Another Man’s Noise

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It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

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You’re writing a freaking blog post! I do what I wish all entrepreneurs would do. I had a pre breakfast with a CEO of a company in which I invested talking about his next fund raising round. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. I had lunch with an LP. Operations.

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Change The Way You Negotiate

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Entrepreneurs have to be wily in all of their transactions, especially long-term commitments, such as property leases. It’s not easy, but I believe that every time you look to open an office for your business you have to look at it as truly an investment in your business. A version of this article previously appeared Forbes.

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

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This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. I recently wrote a blog post about why I believe that startup teams in close proximity perform better. Entrepreneurs need to share more information with each other.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

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Kathy Sierra at Business of Software 2009 - Business of Software Blog , May 4, 2010 "In the old days, getting customers was easy. Guide to Evaluating Startup Ideas - Tony Wright dot com , May 27, 2010 A great developer I once worked with was kvetching at lunch one day. Why Entrepreneurs Hate Lawyers. Disruptive. We get it!

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