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Why You Should Enlist a Business Mentor, Or Be One

Startup Professionals Musings

Bill Gates often refers to his ongoing relationship with Warren Buffett as a mentor, and Mark Zuckerberg counted Steve Jobs as a key mentor. In the words of an ancient Buddhist proverb, “If you light a lamp for someone, it will also brighten your own path.” Marty Zwilling First published on Inc.com on 05/02/2017.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

Both Sides of the Table

With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. A few years ago it became fashionable for large VC’s to do seed funding. I’m surprised at how little referencing some founders do on their VCs.

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Get Inside the Mind of an Angel Investor

Both Sides of the Table

Thomas and his partner lived off of credit cards, and used crappy data centers and open source software (LAMP). The best proof of a soft circle is whether an angel will email someone else (refer another investor) and start off that email with “I’m investing in…”. How investors’ risk differ (0:22:45).

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