Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

So we as VCs search for entrepreneurs/founders who have the whole package or as much of it as possible. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. Few people have it. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt? Not my problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 28, 2010

This includes seed funding Automattic (who produce WordPress, the blog I use for this website) and investing in formspring.me, stickybits, Thing Labs (producer of Brizzly), KissMetrics and many others including Quantcast. So how is Mike able to do this at a time where others have warned against taking seed money from VC funds?

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AUGUST 1, 2008

October 2007 (This essay is derived from a keynote at FOWA in October 2007.) Larry and Sergey only started Google after making the rounds of the search engines trying to sell their idea and finding no takers. Theres something interesting happening right now. Its a pattern we see over and over in technology.

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