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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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6 Tips for Building Relationships with Journalists

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Oh, and Demo charges the startups $18,000. Journalists don’t know enough about your company before the show, don’t have time for proper research, and you will be competing for their time afterward with 49+ other companies that want them to write about you. - Robert’s article is worth reading. Deal with it gracefully.

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Coincident.TV Is “CREATE”-ing Second Screen Transmedia Producers Out Of Everyone [Beta Invites]

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Hours after the panelists debated the future of content distribution at the Silicon Beach @ USC conference, across campus at the Annenberg Innovation Lab a remarkable product demo was taking place by Coincident.TV. It has been reported by Google that 77% of viewers use a companion device while watching TV. Currently, Coincident.TV

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Taking My Hat Off to @Shervin and His Hyperloop Ambitions

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I’m going to write a pure admiration piece. We attended a fbFund demo day ( which I rarely do but it was put on by my long-time buddy Dave McClure – who hadn’t yet started 500Startups – and Sheryl Sandberg who was much more of a mere mortal back then). Not this one. story about big bets and equally grand huevos.

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

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To start, let’s take a peek inside my train of thinking while I was preparing what I would report on for Tech Crunch Disrupt 2012. The best way to get a journalist’s attention is to know who you are writing to and what interests them. 6 Always do a demo. 1 Pre Planning. 8 You’re not psychic so drop the qualifiers.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. And I would rather, even before the executive summary, have something to play with (a demo)…” It falls in the category of show don’t tell. Oblong, Minority Report, and the rise of Spatial Operating Systems. And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report.

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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Goldman release a report on us. Just don’t believe what they write about you. Write a blog post or a journal about how you feel while you’re there. We launched out second company, Koral, at DEMO in 2006. We headlined at the Red Herring Europe conference (they were the equivalent of TechCrunch today).

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