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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Yet despite his ability to raise over $1 billion of private equity and to build an organization that is worth $5 billion as of this writing, Mason was shown the door. Thirteen months after raising more than $10 billion in the public markets the board forced Mason out after another dismal financial quarter. Can you afford the distraction?

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

Web Development & Marketing Technology) Exit: evolved into L90 (next company) Lesson: What you dont know cant stop you. One hour I might be spending time working with customers and partners, the next day raising capital, the day after that working on product vision and the next hour talking to the press. Startup 3.0: Be scrappy.

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