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Here’s How You Get A VC To Pull Out Their Checkbook

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In most cases, I provide some combination of the following advice: Brevity - Maximum length: two pages. Too Techie - Tone down emphasis on the technology underlying your venture; an interested investor will perform tech diligence at the appropriate time. No VC Fit - Match your venture with appropriate funding source.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I believe it is the new form of RSS – the place people go to find out what is happening in the latest news. I covered that topic in my Twitter is RSS post. Twitter is better than RSS – it’s “curated RSS.&# The stream is limited in length and therefore people share links. What else is out there?

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From Startup Newsletter To Best Selling Book: How This Entrepreneur Pulled It Off

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Upon graduation from Wharton, John and Kyle launched a startup based upon a simple, pedestrian product: a computer mouse shaped like the head of a golf driver. Putting their expensive educations to good use, they aptly named their novelty product a "MouseDriver". Dear Friends, We have no income and no venture capital funding.

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Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Mansion To Dive Into SoCal Tech Scene

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View Staff Page. ” The new mansion will reportedly be inhabited mostly by Tyler, who will use it as his home base while launching West Coast operations of the brothers’ new NYC-based venture capital firm , Winklevoss Capital. Go West Young Men: Winklevoss Twins Buy $18M L.A. Colleen Taylor. About & Staff.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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I started with the hosted version and then migrated to an installed version so I could use Google Analytics and some other products. Now I’m a VC. You also should have it be what your Twitter page links to. That way people who want to get your blog by RSS and/or email can do so. I love their product.

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Why You Should Start a Company in. Los Angeles

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RSS ); Why You Should Start a Company in. Sand Hill Road has so many venture capital firms and they are so large, and they have been around for so long and they are very closely coupled and tied with Stanford [University]. Be extra productive. And what happened in L.A. is--were not Sand Hill Road, right? Learn more.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? I was meeting regularly with entrepreneurs and offering (for better or for worse) advice on how to run a startup and how to raise venture capital from my experience in doing so at two companies. By definition, you read blogs.

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