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What Did I Learn From the First VC Check I Ever Wrote?

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Just as I was getting the swing of things the world shifted beneath my feet and the stock market went into a free fall and venture capital all but shut down for nearly a year. We not only have our Series A funds that can write $500k?—?$15 15 million first checks but we also have three growth funds. Over the past 2.5

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. According to John, "So, we, we sent.(an And so the book came out.

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

InfoChachkie

Consistent with the statistics cited in Why Entrepreneurs Hate (Most) MBAs , the large majority of John and Kyle''s classmates accepted positions at investment banks and consulting firms upon graduation. Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding. According to John, "So, we, we sent.(an And so the book came out.

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Entrepreneurship: Nature vs. Nurture? A Religious Debate

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I wasn’t going to write about it since he had just covered the topic and echoed my point of view. At the margin you can make yourself better at sales, product design, marketing, leadership, capital raising, etc. Fred Wilson said as much on his blog also. so it’s not pointless to want to improve. I like surveys.

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The Great VC Ice Age is Thawing (for now) – Part 1 of 3

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But any entrepreneurs raising capital should keep in mind that this opening of the markets could possibly be temporary. Three reasons: There is a relative valuation between the price a VC pays and their expectations of what it will exit for in an IPO or trade sale. The best MBA class I took was an investment strategy class.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. But putting no time into anchoring your beliefs because you’re too busy executing sales, marketing, support, product & engineering is an easy recipe for leadership drift. WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get). Conviction.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

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He writes with a great perspective and is well worth reading. I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. Okay, so maybe you never took statistics, microeconomics or macroeconomics. I had to laugh a bit reading it.

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