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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

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billion IPO), HealthDataInsights (Las Vegas, $400 million) as well as LA (Maker Studios $1 billion, TrueCar $1.3 She is a coach and mentor to team members. But some of our largest investments have come from all across the country: BillMeLater (Baltimore, $1 billion eBay), DealerTrack (NYC, $1.3 billion IPO), Envestnet (Chicago, $1.25

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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TrueCar, an LA-based company, sells more cars now than any physical dealer in the country and recently went public and has a $1 billion market cap. Fred Wilson has done this for the NY startup scene but of course you also have mass media located there. Indeed we have already seen the beginnings. Venture Capital.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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Of course much of it is conflicting. And of course I’ve sat on the other side of the table: As a VC. And of course you’re meeting people who can give you money. One of the best sales coaches I ever worked with used to talk to me about “testing prospects.” But of course that’s horse puckey.

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