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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill. Folksonomy.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the company has potential to break out into a much bigger company then you should let the founders take money off of the table. He’s been at it since 2005. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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We wrote all of our software in VB6 and then ported it to.NET in 2001/2002. In 2005 our no-longer-startup was bought for $350 Million, making many millionaires of the original employees and investors. Your analogies are flawed as it shows both your lack of understanding of.NEt and even the fast food business. Michael Chan.

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What Jonah @Peretti, CEO of BuzzFeed, Sees in the Future of Digital Media

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That is why I invited the Founder & CEO, Jonah Peretti , to come talk at the 2017 Upfront Summit and make the case himself. I began asking around who the smartest people in the online media industry were and two names came up again and again — Jonah Peretti (social & viral content) and Ze Frank (social video).

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