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When, Where, and How to Raise Venture Capital

Startup Professionals Musings

Venture capitalists, or VCs, are the folks with millions upon millions of dollars to invest in companies such as theirs. This includes the folks that funded Google and Yahoo and Netflix and Ebay, and many of the great recent companies which were able to start and grow to massive scale in just a short period of time.

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Why Pseudonymity Is Such an Important Concept

Both Sides of the Table

Fred Wilson wrote a blog post yesterday called “Real Names” in which he talked about a commenter on his blog who preferred not to comment because he didn’t want to use his real name. Where you can talk about topics that it might not be appropriate for a VC to discuss in writing. It’s a powerful concept.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

Both Sides of the Table

The framework of his book has profoundly altered how I think about the technology market and affects how I thought about building my businesses and how I think about investing in venture capital. About how dismissive traditional print was about blogs or the airlines views the “peanut serving&# Southwest Airlines.

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Interview with Zach James and Rich Raddon, MOVIECLIPS.COM

socalTECH

We said to the studios--you have this amazing content, why not let us clip it all up, find the best moments in film, and allow users to post those to their blogs and Facebook pages, and let us create curated channels on the web? Zach James: MOVIECLIPS is the largest and only collection of movie clips, licensed from the studios.

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Wireless Internet Firms Take On Big Telecoms in Cities and Suburbs

Xconomy

If you’re a city dweller, and unhappy with the big company that provides your Internet connection, chances are good there’s a scrappy little outfit that thinks it can do better for you.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

This continues my series of posts: Top 30 Startup Posts for July 2010 Top 30 Startup Posts in June 2010 Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010 Startup CTO Top 30 Posts for April 16 Great Startup Posts from March Here they are: How to Minimize Politics in Your Company - Ben's Blog , August 24, 2010 “Who the f@#k you think you f$&kin’ with.

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Revolution co-founder talks Living Social, ZipCar, Steve Case & GroupOn Super Bowl Ads

Both Sides of the Table

The venture capital industry is so heavily skewed to Northern California, which the remains spilled over Boston, New York & Southern California. So it was wonderful to hear from a leading venture capital firm based in Washington DC. I run Revolution’s VC investments. Netflix is a great example.