Entrepreneur Screening Summary Writing 
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APRIL 13, 2011
Or, as always, summary notes available below. Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. But, in fact, I would rather have an executive summary than a pitch deck. 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. was starting.
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SEPTEMBER 28, 2011
I shifted my thinking a few years ago after I read Tim Ferris’s book The Four Hour Workweek (link is to a short summary I wrote). You’re writing a freaking blog post! I do what I wish all entrepreneurs would do. It’s an entrepreneur with whom I’ve been wanting to work for 6 years. I think so. [I
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MAY 13, 2018
If you’re raising a round where a new lead investor would invest $5 million the VC fund must have no less than $100 million and if you’re looking for them to write $15–20 million as the lead their fund realistically should be at least $400 million. Remember, I was an entrepreneur for 10 years before a VC).
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MARCH 6, 2011
I was saying that I was happy it was all out in the open because I felt at least everybody could now understand the issues & opportunities from the perspectives of angels, entrepreneurs and VCs. Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs.
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JANUARY 13, 2011
I wrote the summary notes in this blog post. I talked about this in the TWiVC video but I didn’t do a good enough job of writing it up in the summary notes in the post. The quote from Bryce is: “When an entrepreneur steps to the whiteboard the energy in the room totally changes.
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JULY 19, 2011
Yet a critical mistake I see many entrepreneurs make is that they hand over too much control to their third-parties. They’re also good at screening candidates. As an entrepreneur I have one company to sell. They do a routine task over-and-over again all year long that we do only periodically. Recruiters. You name it.
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MARCH 30, 2010
As I naturally get asked all the time why we invested in Company A or Company B, I thought I’d just put forth my thesis in writing. He has many of the attributes I look for in an entrepreneur and importantly he has deep domain experience in ad management. I’ll explain in detail below. What does it do?
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