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Timing and why we’re all VCs

TechCrunch LA

When should a VC invest? There are CEOs that always seem to guide their companies to the right place at the right time and drive their stock valuations up. Start writing down predictions about people, companies, and markets. It’s the only way forward in capitalism, and it’s worth every investment you can make.

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How I Use Visualization to Drive Creativity

Both Sides of the Table

So I thought I’d write a post about how I drive my personal creativity. (A The key is channeling what you learn when you drive onto paper for retention purposes so you have to write it down soon afterward. When I write a blog post I often see the words before I write them. These are all creative processes.

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What’s the Real Deal with AngelList?

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I hope I straddled people’s points of view well enough not to have offended anybody while adding a framework for how I think about the service. This is a blog post I really didn’t want to write. I didn’t want to write it because I have mixed feelings about AngelList. So why I am writing it then?

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What is the Right Burn Rate at a Startup Company?

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Let’s set up a framework. otherwise I prefer to invest less and risk less). A Framework to Guide You: So putting it all together, you should always be mindful of your personal circumstances and market conditions. But what IS the right amount of burn for a company? Here’s overall what you need to know.

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How to Handle a VC Presentation with No Deck

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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. Use it as a framework for a dialog not a script. Use something like, “I noticed you invested in a couple of companies in the x,y,z space. Let them guide you. It’s subtle.

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Tech Giants’ Partnership To Explore Ethics, Societal Impacts of AI

Xconomy

Each company is investing untold billions of dollars in developing AI technologies, betting on a future defined by computer systems that can perceive, reason, advise, and decide. General interest, awareness, and discussion about AI has waxed and waned since the field was founded in 1956,” they write ( PDF ). “We