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VC Confessions: We Passed On Twilio’s Seed Round

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Exceptions exist, such as the highly self-aware Paige Craig, who recently described how he missed out becoming Airbnb's first investor. It also wasn’t clear at the time what types of apps would be built on top of the platform, other than cheaper IVR systems. VC's love to talk about their successes.

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Startup Weekend LA | An Insiders Story of a Startup on Steroids

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Nathan, pitched Code Wars as a platform for developers/coders to test their skills against each other and get ranked in what would be an impromptu micro-hackathon. Business Development (BD) worked on a business plan, market research and customer validation. We were all in such a high for winning the competition!!!

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StartupDemo Was a Huge Success!

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Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device. VC/Angel Panel.

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TechZulu Live from StartupDemo

Tech Zulu Event

Panel speakers: Paige Craig , aka. Social Rewards helps leverage your existing loyalty program and turn it into a distribution platform via social media. Novimap is an online and mobile mapping platform. enables developers to sell cross-platform web-apps that optimize to your mobile device.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

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That, plus I love the space of high-customer-service, focused eCommerce for moms worried about what their kids eat & wear.&#. It is a communication platform. Paige Craig initially showed absolutely no investment interest but agreed to meet Jody and ended up investing. I know this guy is a money maker.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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He listed all of the product releases that were up coming, the customers that were in the pipeline and where he saw his competition moving. Who’s going to help you with improving your marketing / positioning to become a clear platform category leader like Twilio? Are you going to do all of this?