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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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No blog post about how Tiger is crushing everybody because it’s deploying all its capital in 1-year while “suckers” are investing over 3-years can change this reality. Across more than 10 years we have kept the size of our Seed investments between $2–3.5 By 2021 we had to write a $3.5m It’s just math.

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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

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I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” There is often money to be made in finding places with under-valued IP. We looked at the IP and realized it was highly differentiated / hard to replicate.

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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I was reading Danielle Morrill’s blog post today on whether one’s “ Startup Burn Rate is Normal. So money spent should add equity value or create IP that eventually will. If you have raised a limited amount of money from angels, accelerators or seed funds be very careful about having a high burn rate.

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The Long-Term Value of Loyalty

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No rule is ever absolute no matter how it sounds when one writes a blog. But the firm that funded my first startup was loyal to me for having stuck around in what they knew to be pretty tough times and having suffered much dilution. Finally, I made clear that there are ALWAYS exceptions to the rule.

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Top 120 Startup Posts for 2010

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My 1,000th Post on This Blog - Tim Berry's Blog - Planning Startups Stories , July 21, 2010 HTML5 video markup, compatibility and playback - Niall Kennedy's Weblog , February 8, 2010 Your Product Needs a Soul - ArcticStartup , February 12, 2010 Product Friday: Monetizing Content is a Product Problem - This is going to be BIG.

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