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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. ” I love businesses that don’t lend themselves well to VC Panels at conferences or Demo Days. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I hustled.

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

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I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). They do this because they have amazing skills at writing business plans. ” I love businesses that don’t lend themselves well to VC Panels at conferences or Demo Days. Of course I went through normal other channels of deal flow. I hustled.

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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In fact, I said as much in September 09 at a Twitter conference in LA on a panel that Guy Kawasaki was moderating. It also means that the publisher (person writing the status update) can share in the monetization. So how does this all relate to the upcoming Twitter Chirp conference next week?

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? (1/11) – Tenacity

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This post covers the first out of 10 that I’ll write about. The moderator asked the question, “if an entrepreneur writes an email to a VC and doesn’t hear back what should they do?&# This VC responded, “Move on. You no longer work for Google, Oracle, Salesforce.com or McKinsey where everybody calls you back.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

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because every community needs its local tech press to report on companies and run conference. I don’t write about LA but I write from LA. I prefer not to do any angel investments because I focus on my VC funds but it was gratifying to write some small checks to support local teams. Marketing Muscle.