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Why Reporters Ignore Your Seed-Stage Startup Pitches, And How to Fix That

View from Seed

This is for the early-stage companies — the entrepreneurs with great ideas and tireless work ethics who feel like they’ve emailed half of the country’s news outlets with nothing but the rare “thanks, but not interested” reply to show for it. Reporters aren’t here to advertise for you. The irony hurts. Pitch late. You did it!

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Leaving Government for the Private Sector – Part 2

Steve Blank

Venture Capitalist : An early-stage VC requires some of the same skills as a Case Officer – spotting, assessing, developing, recruiting, and handling founders building a company amid an uncertain operating environment that will bring a heavy return on investment. Most startups fail, especially those in the early stages.

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What’s Really Going on in the VC Industry? What Does it Mean for Startups?

Both Sides of the Table

So super angel and seed funds are proliferating – As a result there has been an explosion in the number of amazing early-stage investors such as Softtech VC , Floodgate , Felicis Ventures , K9 Ventures , OATV , Lowercase Capital , Founder Collective , and many, many more. That’s OK. Price MUST be in a certain range.

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Startup Founders’ Favorite Interview Questions to Judge Early Team Fit

View from Seed

At seed-stage startups, especially companies with well-networked founders and investors, finding applicants who can do a job on paper is not overly difficult. TripleLift is native programmatic advertising simple, scalable, and effective on the visual web. If it’s a seed-stage hire, you should already know the person.

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Is there a marketing crunch in Israel? A chat with an Israeli Unicorn CMO

VC Cafe

Mobile advertising is at the forefront of Marketing, so I think you’ll appreciate Ran’s perspective. VC Cafe: What’s the best advice or practical tips you have for founders with regards to marketing and branding at seed stage? And running fast as an early stage start-up is so important.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And while the internet created both tremendous reward and tremendous investment carnage leading up to and after the 2000 tech bubble, it’s created long run disruption of broad sectors of media, advertising, business software & computing, and retail commerce and VCs that missed this shift have faced real struggles. Read More ».

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The market size for online advertising, e-commerce, and web premium services are 1/10th to 1/3rd the size they are today. I certainly bear no ill will to the various firms that ultimately passed on our fundraise… as a seed stage VC myself now I can appreciate how hard it is evaluating companies at the earliest stages of development.