Blogging Entrepreneur Press Screening 
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JANUARY 26, 2013
Understanding “The Funding Angle” I sit at enough board meetings to hear conflicting advice given to entrepreneurs about how to handle PR and announcements at startups. But succinctly this press places a marker in the ground for your company. This is true on all of the major tech blogs. Funding is news.
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JUNE 12, 2013
Brunson’s short and to-the-point blog post, “ It’s Called Networking, Not Using.” One of the most common questions I hear from first-time entrepreneurs is, “How do I meet angels?” It’s why I wrote the blog post on 50 Coffee Meetings. When you want press, it will come.
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OCTOBER 19, 2014
We are often asked how companies get funded, why VCs make the decisions we make and what we’re looking for in entrepreneurs. Andrew & Petri posited that a modern media company would build lovable characters that span video games, online digital media, lovable plush physical toys and then ultimately find its way to the big screen.
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FEBRUARY 24, 2011
And if you are – what on earth are you reading such a boring blog as this?!? OK, that sounds like an interesting business, but nothing to write a freakin’ blog post about? Gogii spent way more effort marketing to what I call “The USA Today market&# rather than the tech blog market. But I never gave up.
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JANUARY 14, 2014
Only naive people believe that but for inexperienced entrepreneurs you can be fooled into the narrative by the press who sometimes write stories without the actual data. In a way it feels intuitive to us – the readers of this blog – because we’re the tech crowd. PHONE CALLS. Enter phone calls. Not so fast.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 4, 2013
Because entrepreneurs often went to lawyers at their earliest stages to get their company registration done. Entrepreneurial lawyers like Don Lee , Dave Young or Ted Wang are good at sussing out which entrepreneurs are high potential. They are likely taking losses on their first project with the entrepreneur so they select carefully.
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MAY 13, 2018
In any event this is a “screening meeting” or as I’ve called on my graphics an “introduction” to the firm. Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC). Even though I got a “no” he helped me understand why I wasn’t a fit for him and that always set the bar for how I wanted to treat entrepreneurs?—?friendly,
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