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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. Thus is venture capital. Tempus Fugit.

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Tale of Two Valleys: LA and the Bay Area from an Investor’s Perspective

Mucker Lab

After stints as a technology investment banker, a dot-com entrepreneur, and a product manager in Silicon Valley, I moved to Los Angeles in 2006. I regularly come across companies who happen to have the #1 paid app in the App Store fly under the radar for years before raising venture capital. Diversity” and “Domain Experience”.

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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

Over the same 30 years, Venture Capital firms have honed their skills and strategies to match Wall Streets needs to achieve liquidity for their portfolio companies. One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. What Do VC’s Do?

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

For those who don’t know, I wrote the book Open Innovation in 2003, and followed it with Open Business Models in 2006, and Open Services Innovation in 2011. A startup is a temporary organization in search of a repeatable, scalable business model. When companies want to innovate a new business model (vs.

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Will Work for Equity - Investing in Clients - Arizona Bay

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Dave Graham Business Venture Capital Private Equity GlobalLogic Inc. Venture Capital Firms. By 2006, he was still only dabbling in the occasional work-for-equity deal. Over the past year or so, work-for-equity arrangements have become an integral part of Arizona Bays business model.

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Entrepreneurial opportunities in the vaping industry

The Startup Magazine

That is, until electronic cigarettes were first introduced to the US some time in 2006 and vaping captured the attention of a large and eager audience looking for a safer and healthier alternative to smoking combustible cigarettes. Almost all of the early entrants into this industry were smaller startups.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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