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As noted in 6 Steps To Raising VentureCapital , as you accomplish your previously communicated milestones, send your target VCs a brief email update (think eye-candy graphics and charts, not dense text). Follow my startup-oriented Twitter feed here: @johngreathouse. Photo Credit: ralphbijker via Flickr. Share and Enjoy.
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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? This is a post to help you figure out why you should write and what you should talk about. GRP Partners last fund is the single best performing VC fund in the US (prequin data) for its vintage year). Absofuckinglutely.
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Huge thank you to Steve De Long for the write up. RSS was something that had appeared.” “….I Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venturecapital. Brad’s start in VentureCapital. Is that when it became big? was starting.
We talked about a lot of great stuff in the video including how to do sales calls and a how a new “culture of writing&# is emerging as a critical skill set in business today. We also talked about why Jon decided to leave Google to become an EIR at a VC firm (Polaris) – minute 33.
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Steven knew that from a fund perspective he wasn’t going to earn the amount of money that a typical VC might look for since we were selling early. I know that people prefer to use Twitter as their RSS feed these days but wanted to remind anybody else that you can still get the traditional feed. Not so venturecapital.
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