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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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But now you can learn the origins first hand on this YouTube video as well as how to approach them, how they make decisions and what innovations they've introduced. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. During the first year of the fund they took forty-eight trips to California!

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What I Learned In 2015: Hamet Watt, Upfront Ventures

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Hamet Watt: Upfront Ventures raised a brand-new $300 million fund, Upfront V. I wait a split second too long to let the ball out of my hands at the apex of my jump. I did it a few times and tried a number of visualization techniques including imagining myself being filmed, imaging just the basket being filmed.

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Interview with Dave Fink and Jonathan Neddenriep, Postie

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Los Angeles-based Postie (postie.com), backed by Bonfire Ventures and Crosscut Ventures, is applying machine learning and other techniques to direct mail. If you seen the entrepreneurs that disrupt big categories, they came at it from a very different approach, which is not iterative, but is transformative. What is Postie?

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Top 57 Online Startups Meets Technology Meets Product Posts for November 2010

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I continue to collect great content that is the intersection of startups, products, online and technology. aka: An Open Letter to the Next Big Social Network) - 500 Hats , November 1, 2010 I've held off writing this post for a long time, because I couldn't quite get my head around all the issues. but: Something is Still Missing. call to arms.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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People are much more likely to buy into you as a person and us as a firm when they’ve been involved in a discussion with you about their problems, your solutions, who else has been using your product, etc. This is part of my blog series “ Pitching a VC.&#. They might even like to challenge some of your assumptions.