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JANUARY 6, 2014

When you first start your company and raise initial venture capital your board probably consists of 1-3 founders and 1-2 VCs. The functions of an early-stage board are pretty obvious and well understood: Providing introductions to customers, biz dev partners, recruits, the press, other investors, etc. In the Early Days. Mentorship.

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DECEMBER 2, 2009

As noted in Pour and Stir Part I , the key to the successful execution of this strategy is managing the following equation: The cost to acquire a customer < lifetime value of a customer. Decreasing Your Customer Acquisition Costs. This is equivalent to being handed a free customer for every ten customers you acquire.

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APRIL 14, 2014

Our fantastically inefficient Federal Government could learn a great deal from the folks at ABC. In many ways, you act as a venture capital firm, with returns measured in impact, rather than profits. Yes, our approach is similar to what you’d see from a venture capital firm. ABC''s Founder And CEO Speaks Out.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran on Business Insider and has generated much Twitter chatter. What gives? Am I a hypocrite?

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