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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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It’s true the some VCs have started writing so many checks that they resemble stock pickers but the majority of us still have less than 10 board seats at any time and tend to go pretty deep so the result is that we care deeply about where we commit our time. Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte.

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What Would Happen if you Built the Reverse of Amazon? It Might Look Something Like This …

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Today’s $24 billion storage market in the US has these same key disadvantages and that was the genesis of Sam Rosen’s initial idea for MakeSpace , which I initially funded 15 months ago. He had an idea to make it better. We then riffed on the idea of, “That’s interesting. 10x the experience.

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On Leadership, Teams, Success & Happiness

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“Imagine you were a Phd wireless chip designer out of UCSD and then Qualcomm. Are you looking for a Phd wireless chip designer?&#. So yes, I want to hire somebody with really high IQ and EQ but not somebody who is more knowledgeable at your specific skill set than you are. He is still not sure. Most people work in groups.

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Announcing a Deal I’ve Wanted to Talk About for a Year

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He had an idea for a startup that would help consumers better book service jobs and would take on Service Magic, which he believed had a business model that could be disrupted. Because I knew that Ethan was on to a powerful idea and one in which he had developed huge competence and domain knowledge in. He was seeking $500k.

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Interview Eric Sikola, ExpenseBay

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The idea really came from a lot of the online personal finance tools--like Wesabe, Mint, and Quicken Online--where the world has adopted pulling in credit card data, and you can use it, you can categorize it. I just really felt market demanded this and it's a productivity tool that could be used by an entire organization or individual.

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RingRevenue Creates A New Performance Marketing Revenue Channel

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At CallWave, Colin was CTO, Jason was CFO and I was in charge of product marketing and customer acquisition. Performance marketing also demands accountability. Good ideas, great people and access to capital are key to any thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem. We’re always hiring great people.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

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I setup a nice little home office for myself and started dabbling with a few ideas. I started an incubator/holdings company called Addante and Associates to be the umbrella company for my ideas and consulting projects. I started dabbling with a few ideas around online advertising, search engines and other random projects.

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