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JANUARY 5, 2010

They often make great team members such as head of products, CTO, head of sales, CFO, etc. And we’re lucky because they deliver many of the great products, services and content that we consume in our lives every day. I joined GRP Partners in 2007 before they raised their current fund (we closed a $200 million fund in March 2009).

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I raised $500k in seed money to start the company. The very modest salary that I drew didn’t come anywhere near meeting my monthly costs so I had to eat into savings. The company did well in 2006 as we delivered a phenomenal product that got much industry acclaim at conferences and with initial customers.

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MARCH 6, 2015

I was out to raise my first seed money in my second startup of $500,000. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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AUGUST 1, 2008

October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) In essense, let the market design the product. This is a problem for founders, because it makes raising money take longer and cost more in legal fees. He was a precise sort of guy, so hed measured their productivity before and after.

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