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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. ” Fair play.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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I’m not saying that lawyers were my screening process – simply that they knew about deals early on and they had voted with their time and pocketbooks so I knew I had a degree of filtering. And they have access to some of the most talented technology entrepreneurs so this is a worthy goal for them. ” Fair play.

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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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I get approached about clean tech or biotech periodically – I don’t focus on these. In ad tech there’s Seth Levine at Foundry Group and both Dana Settle & Ian Sigelow at Greycroft. When I was reading the Fab.com website I noticed that the CEO refers to Fab’s “one thing” as being design.

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