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Once again: Is it the jockey or the horse?

Berkonomics

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. And great management can morph a company to adopt without destroying the culture of the company in the process. Concentrate on a world class team.

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Once again: Is it the jockey or the horse?

Berkonomics

If you are looking for money, this question will certainly come up in one form or another when you approach professional or organized angel or VC investors. And great management can morph a company to adopt without destroying the culture of the company in the process. Concentrate on a world class team.

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Venture Outlook 2016

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There is a lot of uncertainty about the state of the private, high-growth technology markets and the venture capital markets that underpin them. Perhaps I would call it “Mourning in VC” as in mourning for the days of rational behavior. I spoke last week at the annual Cendana VC/LP conference. Are LPs to blame?

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Why Startup Entrepreneurs Need to Communicate More Like George Bush Than Al Gore

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” If you don’t read any more of the post, the summary lesson learned for entrepreneurs is this: Product-centric founders often over-intellectualize their communications and therefore fail to sell their concepts to the masses. In a VC pitch this type of messaging will do just fine. Before that he was a US senator.