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Why Early-Stage VCs Should Be Careful About Intros from Bankers

Both Sides of the Table

What price? Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. What stage? I hustled.

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The Importance of Proprietary Deal Flow in Early-Stage VC

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What price? Should I trust my instincts for founders and products or should I be more focused on the market size or business plan? I tapped my friends at big tech companies (Salesforce, Google, Oracle). The only way for a company to be overvalued is if there’s someone willing to pay that price. What stage? I hustled.

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Why Entrepreneurs Need To Keep Their Business Focused

Startup Professionals Musings

Every new business or product owner wants to attract the broadest possible audience, so they are prone to adding more features, multiple sales channels, and appealing to every demographic. Focus means creating a minimum viable product (MVP) first, and validating it in the marketplace. Limit solution scope and features.

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Congrats To All The Winners and Thanks To Our Speakers at #REACHNeXT!

Tech Zulu Event

Verizon , Monster Products , MerchLabs , HIRED , Instart Logic , Zeel , Shootly , Move Loot , Microsoft , American Laser Company , Zirx , DoorDash , Drizly. Storygami is a SaaS tool that allows content creators and brands add overlays such as relevant context, social streams and call to action buttons to videos. We thank you!

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Twitter’s Acquisition, Chirp & Managing Developer Relationships

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First, I believe that Seesmic has an excellent product – especially the web version of their product and that having another senior and experienced exec like Loic Le Meur would be great for Twitter. Or if they do they should do so without raising venture capital so that they can still be acquired for reasonable prices.

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Tech Titans Peter Thiel, Matt Jacobson, Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss, Mich Mathews, Elon Musk Buy Homes in Los Angeles

SoCal Delicious

Prices are soaring in the beachfront communities tech types favor, and rents in these. There is a feeling that techies are the new celebrities," says Eric Kuhn, an agent who heads the social-media department at United Talent Agency. Another client, Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison, just closed on a deal to buy ex- Yahoo.