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What I Would Look for When Choosing a VC – Knowing What I Know Now?

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It’s insanely competitive to get into our industry so most have degrees from institutions like Stanford, Harvard, Wharton and University of Chicago (blatant plug ;-). VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. SEO marketing vs. social marketing. I think of VCs as coaches. FourSquare.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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Other firms like Google bring massive resources to design or engineering and as as corporate VC can offer things normal VC firms can’t offer. And there is often competition over marketing activities, fund raising ownership and the like. Kerry will spearhead this initiative.