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Why Confidence is So Important in Fund Raising

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Note: If you enjoy my posts please subscribe to my newsletter by adding your email below. Of course you have to be careful with this. Of course if they did some initial work and were leaning in to make an investment then we’d spend time helping them. link] Another entrepreneur was recently in my office.

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Why Venture Capital is So Much More Compelling Now

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Of course the concentration of capital in growth firms and the intense competition to fund the best deals leads to some risks. And of course new entrants are competing to capture the private-market value (hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate funds). These are most notable in late-stage, D-round, investments. Startup Lessons'

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Here is The Best Data You’ll Find on the LA Tech Market

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I would be super grateful if you would visit the site and sign up for a newsletter if you felt so inclined. And of course thank you to CB Insights. To mark the occasion of launching this inaugural report I am also proud to announce that we’ve also launched the Upfront Insights blog. You were right, Alex , he is a superstar.

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The Station: Via hits $2.25B valuation, letters from readers, layoffs in a time of COVID-19

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Hi, and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways people and packages travel from Point A to Point B. I have started to publish a version of the newsletter on TechCrunch. For the whole newsletter, which comes out every weekend, you can subscribe by heading over here , and clicking “The Station.”

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How to Talk About Valuation When a VC Asks

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Of course, unlike cars there is no direct comparison across each startup so these are just some general guidelines to try and even the information field. How you talk about valuation will of course depend on how well your business is performing and how much demand you have from other investors. some might even want slightly more.

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Some Perspective on Twitter vs. Meerkat

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Of course it’s better for me as a user and I could argue it’s MY social graph. But it is just the top end of my user funnel and I need to convince audiences who visit my blog to sign up for my newsletter to have a “direct” relationship with them. As a user – yes. As a business – no.

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How I Gamified My Own Brain to Lose Weight & Improve Fitness

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Mental Psyche [If you want to sign-up for my free newsletter you can click here. It’s a form of accountability but of course it’s all just in your own mind. I will get into workouts and fitness in a later post but for today I want to cover my mental plan for changing how I eat. But for a few weeks will cover health & fitness.

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