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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. we had about 25 firms contacting us – more than I could manage. After Office 2.0

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How do we “unscare” people?

Austin Startup

After September 11th, 2001, people were afraid to fly. It is possible to transmit this virus while asymptomatic, but most transmission (56%) happens after patients are symptomatic as viral shedding peaks close to when symptoms appear?—?and This will not be easy, but these seem like manageable numbers. TSA had two functions.

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You Think You Screwed Up? Have I Got a Story for You!

Babbling VC

We often think we can change people, even managers. These business would scale on the sheer virality of their communities. They kept changing the responsible investment manager for the deal as well hence we never really knew whom to speak to when we needed something. This cost me money! A lot of it! We never led rounds.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

Both Sides of the Table

The VCs basically have liquidity in management fees along the way, in the sense they get paid decently along the way. But more spend = more viral opps = more revenue down the road. >50% of our revenue in now viral. But the day after you’ll wake up and see yourself more as a manager than an owner.

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Is Emotion Necessary To Make More Sales?

ConversionXL

In a separate study done by viral content agency Fractl , they showed participants 30 of the top 100 images on Reddit, asking them to look at the image, then to the corresponding emotion on Robert Plutchik’s Wheel Of Emotion. image sources. If nobody is comfortable enough to talk about the problem, how can the problem be fixed?

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“AirB&E” and Disaster Response for Consumer Startups

Gust

Amid the remembrance of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks this past weekend, much was made of the voluminous 9/11 Commission report, which described in excruciating detail countless ways in which the United States homeland security and emergency response infrastructure failed to respond adequately to a disaster of unprecedented proportions.

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

blog.expensify.com

And.NET’s languages (C#, IronPython, managed C++, etc.) The VAST majority of what you’re dealing with (HTTP, MIME, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, relational databases, page template, authentication, session management, caching, etc.) Do you manage to hire any programmers in the first place. are also reasonable and flexible.

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