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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. What is Postie?

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What I Learned In 2015: Hamet Watt, Upfront Ventures

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I wait a split second too long to let the ball out of my hands at the apex of my jump. I did it a few times and tried a number of visualization techniques including imagining myself being filmed, imaging just the basket being filmed. As an entrepreneur and a new investor, this couldn't be more relevant. As in more than 20% more.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams. After the sales meetings I would ask the exec afterward, “how do you think it went?&# We used to do this in our sales slides.