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San Diego Fundingpost VC and Angel Investor Conference

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Tuesday, March 26, 2019 -- San Diego Fundingpost VC and Angel Investor Conference. At our next event, the panel of Investors will focus on Early-Stage Venture Investing: How to meet investors, pitch them, and what it really takes to get them to write you a check! Register for the FundingPost event on Tuesday, March 26th, 2019.

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How Open Should a Startup CEO be with Staff?

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Of course not. It’s a hard topic to write about because it’s almost an accepted norm that total transparency is good. They told you, “Yeah, man, I’ll gladly write the first $250,000. You have a runway that would make San Diego Airport’s look long. Of course you need to be open.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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And of course we talked about many of my views of building startups. I spoke a lot about the need for “personal branding” which I plan to write about soon. My mom was an entrepreneur – she was kind of my inspiration for entrepreneurship. If you want a sneak peak on that it’s in the video or transcript.

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Interview with Tom Allanson, PerfectForms

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Through the course of that development, what I observed was that people who were knowledgeable about the process of credit scoring spent an inordinate amount of time imparting that knowledge to developers, who then had to build, QA, and integrate, and test it to get it right. So you ended up here in San Diego because of Intuit?

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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But of course all of these things are intertwined. In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. Obviously you need to be mentally flexible enough to spot if your instincts were wrong and a change of course is necessary. Empowerment is hard for most startup entrepreneurs.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had seen many cycles and decided that since I was going to do it all over again I should write about it. I decided to write about my experience and to be blunt. It became a huge kerfuffle with many VC partners writing to thank me for the post, which exposed those that gave their industry a bad name. And covered we did.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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The company provides SAT, ACT, and other similar test preparation courses and related software. Some of the biggest school districts, including LA Unified, San Diego, and Oakland all use our software. On the software side, we're really focused on building out to common course standards. We're at $499, they are at $999.