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A Guide to Using Authority & Social Proof in Fund Raising

Both Sides of the Table

The book is a layman’s guide to understanding how we as humans make decisions and is underpinned by data-oriented studies to prove his claims. Before booking a hotel I always check out Trip Advisor and read reviews. You should, too. (no, no, I don’t take affiliate commissions!). This is all explicit decision making.

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Interview with Alan Horsager, Episona

socalTECH

Our first product is called Seed, which is a screening test for male infertility. We have done both retrospective proof-of-concept and also prospective studies to prove out the concept, which is based on probably 100 papers worth of articles published in scientific journals. Where was the technology for this developed?

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

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My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. Either it’s a bunch of pictures or screen shots or it’s a bunch of words.

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Biotech Roundup: Kadmon Debt, Hemo Data, Loose Lips & More

Xconomy

Despite technical differences and the early nature of the data that made comparison difficult, Wall Street declared Spark this week’s winner. Preventative Services Task Force changed its classification of colorectal cancer screening methods, which has implications for Exact’s diagnostic, Cologuard. Reprints | Share:

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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So I agreed to offer my current thinking on the economy and what it portends for the VC industry & fund raising for entrepreneurs. I heard an entrepreneur last Friday tell me that after he appeared on AngelList he had a funding frenzy with one investor whom he had never met offering to fund him after just 15 minutes on the phone.