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One Weird Trick to Build a Personal Brand

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In 2006 when I was a budding entrepreneur building my second startup I ran into a young (ish) enthusiastic founder of an electronic signature company called EchoSign. I know it will be hard for you to believe in 2015 but in 2006 Palo Alto (where I lived) was kind of dead. Some background. I was Johnny NoMates. We were Under the Radar.

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As Populist as it May Feel, 98% of VCs Aren’t Dumb

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After all, I am no stranger to the publicly expressing the frustrations of dealing with the downside of this industry as I wrote about in 2006 when I was an entrepreneur. But as an LP you can’t count on that any more than VCs can. The goal of an LP is to get into the top decile. It led to hiring Eric Schmidt.

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