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Interview with Brian Garrett, Crosscut Ventures

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It's analytics around users and visitation on web sites, and it's knowledge of the consumption of photos--for example, GumGum--or video images on the web. in initial seed funding for an early stage company. How tough was it to start up a new fund? Brian Garrett: Fundraising was absolutely brutal, and still is.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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It included one firm who I asked not to call Salesforce.com as a reference (they were our largest pilot customer) and in their kindness they called Marc Benioff (the CEO) and asked his opinion. So far at the company I have raised seed funds of $500,000 of which $470,000 is still in the bank so I’m in pretty good shape.