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A Serial Entrepreneur’s Take On Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals

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As an Instructor of entrepreneurship at UC Santa Barbara, I welcomed the chance to read Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson’s Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer And Venture Capitalist. Brad and Jason have been exposing venture capitalists’ secrets since 2005, when they began writing a blog series on Term Sheets at AskTheVC.

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Why Millennial Entrepreneurs Should Never Watch Shark Tank Alone

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A number of my UC Santa Barbara entrepreneurial students initially model their investment pitches on the show's contrived format. However, if you attempt to apply this television fantasy as a template for your fundraising efforts, you will learn first-hand what the Producer of the reality show I worked on once told me.