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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

Both Sides of the Table

Today we’re in a world where 10 accelerators are bombarding you with emails to meet their 10-15 companies. Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. I know I can’t be in every deal and I know that the easy part of being a VC is writing the first check in a deal.

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How to Talk to a Journalist When You Only Have 30 Seconds

Tech Zulu Event

With booth prices up to $9,500 , it blew my mind how vague the taglines were. One of the best TechCrunch taglines was from a company called Reesio – “Automates the entire real estate process for a flat fee of $1,000” It tells me what value the company can offer me and sets my pricing expectations. 2 Stick to the list.

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Some Thoughts about Selling at Startups

Both Sides of the Table

I got an email recently from my friend & fellow VC, Jeff Bussgang from Flybridge Capital Partners in Boston. The idea that the course asks students to write public blog posts is a testament to its more modern teaching style. My list of excuses includes: product, pricing, competition and lack of sales support.

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How Many Investors Should You Talk to in a VC Fund Raise? And How Do You Prioritize?

Both Sides of the Table

The surest sign a fund-raising process has stalled is when you aren’t getting follow-up meetings or hearing from the VC or hearing from friends that they got a phone call or email asking about you. they told you it was a great meeting but then they don’t respond to emails) DO NOT ASSUME it means they’re not engaged. Sometimes?—?best

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Congrats To The Spotlight: LA Tech Winter Presenting Companies at Caltech

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Crowd Seats gets you in the crowd for your favorite games with ticket prices 50-90% off face value! All it takes is an email address to start receiving our exclusive deals for sports tickets to your favorite teams in your city. We write and create our own content for the game. Price: $25 (Early Bird). to 10:00 p.m.

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Top 40 Startup Posts for August 2010

SoCal CTO

Pricing models, the freemium myth and why you may not be charging enough for your product - Seth Levine's VC Adventure , August 12, 2010 I’ve been pulled into a number of product and pricing meetings recently (for reasons unknown I’ve become the Foundry pricing and productization guy). clearly didn’t cause this.” How it happens.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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I appreciate the write-up and your continued support of this blog. We will white label the system, and not only that, we’ll allow you to set your own pricing.” Before they even launched, Mike and his team started bringing in hundreds of influencers from NYC’s technology ecosystem to their office to give them a private demo.

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