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NOVEMBER 19, 2009

Yes, I know it’s my job as the CEO to be the coach for people and that’s fine. He went out and found a developer and built a product. I used to sit on the board of a company (for which I DID NOT invest) with a very smart and very likable CEO. Should she take a chance and potentially ruffle feathers?

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DECEMBER 16, 2010

You’ve got 20 slides and we’re only on page 3. Can we do a really quick run through your deck so that we save tons of time for a product demo & questions at the end?&#. A perfect meeting gets through the deck quickly, demos a product and still has tons of time for discussion. So my brain goes crazy.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Amazon in turn led to the formation of an earlier stage of venture capital now led by what I call “micro VCs&# who typically invest $250-500k in companies rather than the $5-7 million that VCs used to invest. Some have moved into later stage investments in an effort to “put logos on their websites.&#

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