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Mark Suster’s Advice To Emerging Entrepreneurs – “Do Not Do, As I Have Done”

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In Youthful Discretion , I list a number of entrepreneurial advantages young people have over their more aged brethren. Mark encourages emerging entrepreneurs to be bold, yet he admits that with his first startup, he boldly pushed PR before the product was ready. But our product wasn’t ready for primetime.

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It’s Morning in Venture Capital

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There are obvious reasons the industry has had less-than-desirable returns, including: massive over-funding of the sector, huge increases in inexperienced venture capitalists that took a decade to peter out, and the massive correction in the value of the public stock markets that closed many exit opportunities for half a decade.