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Praying to the God of Valuation

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Something happened in the past 7 years in the startup and venture capital world that I hadn’t experienced since the late 90’s — we all began praying to the God of Valuation. How might our next phase of the journey seem brighter, even with more uncertain days for startups and capital markets? What happened? There was no money train.

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CapLinked Raise $1.6m Series A Round & Appoint Adam Sroka As VP Technology

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million in a new round of financing from Peter Thiel, FF Angel , Siemer Ventures , 500 Startups , Andrej Henkler (former Bertelsmann executive), and Alexsis de Raadt-St. Jackson added, “FinTech has traditionally lagged behind the innovation that’s happening in other areas of enterprise software. 25 Years of Writing Code.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

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This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm.

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Embrace Losing

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This is part of my ongoing series on Start-up Lessons that I learned from founding two companies. It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits ;-). But first I’d like to start with a story. We helped the write out their requirements for a system.

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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

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This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. I write this post as a warning to pick your VC’s carefully. In these many exchanges similar questions crop up. Either you’re not a good leader and he shouldn’t be investing at all, or he has no clue what it takes to build a startup.&#. Let me explain.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . It is never as rewarding when you’re the coach (but coaching has many other benefits. I came several times to NorCal (where I grew up, actually) and went and met several partners from each Silicon Valley firm.

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How To Communicate with your Investors between Board Meetings

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Most early stage startups having monthly board meetings. It makes no sense to meet in August or December due to travel schedules of most investors. For the record, this is not a secret, coded messages to companies for which I am on the board! I ran board meetings as a startup CEO for more than 8 years.

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