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WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC

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This is part of my ongoing series “Pitching a VC&# – the outline is here. You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Most of them are telling you that they just need to see a bit of traction before they’d be prepared to invest. Fund raising is an ongoing process and not an event on a workplan.

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Twiistup 6 Highlights

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We are also home to DemandMedia (Richard Rosenblatt) and Mahalo (Jason Calacanis). Andy Sack, Dave McClure, Brad Feld & Jason Nazar (photo by Jolie Odell). The panel was hosted by Jason Nazar who brought his usual frenetic energy. We have accomplished much yet have much work to do.

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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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Los Angeles-based Crosscut Ventures (www.crosscutventures.com) is one of the newest venture capital funds in the area, and has quietly been working on funding local companies over the last year. Let's start with an overview of the fund. What do you invest in? We closed our fund in August of 2008.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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I recently sat down with Matt Coffin , the founder of LowerMyBills, which sold for $400 million but was very nearly a bankruptcy only a few years early, and talked “startups.&#. What better than to have capital from somebody who has actually done it in the trenches? Here’s a summary of our interview. And he said ok got it.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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What I enjoyed was that Derek did his homework on me and allowed me to talk about a lot of personal topics, which I rarely have the chance to do. I know my title is a bit goofy since it talks in third person but I figured if any of you hit the Tweet button (feel free to!) Here is the link to the video interview. No other reason.

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