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Raving Fans – How Our Themes Evolve

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We have a straightforward meeting – a dinner for our advisory board the night before, drinks after for all LPs, our advisory board meeting first thing in the morning, and then the full meeting until lunch time. I had a call yesterday with another entrepreneur running a company that we passed on the seed round.

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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Through YEO, I got to know Mike and Cindy (who is also an entrepreneur and was in YEO) very well. Before making a decision to invest, we talked to each member of our advisory board to get their feedback. Their feedback, as one would hope from an advisory board, was direct, clear, and ultimately supportive.

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When VCs Don’t B t You

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I know many entrepreneurs who feel that VCs have played them, gamed them, deceived them, or bullshitted them. But this doesn’t only happen to entrepreneurs. Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran. VCs play this game with VCs all the time.

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Excellent Summary of Berkeley Patent Survey Results

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In 2008 I was invited by Pamela Samuelson , who I met through several Silicon Flatiron events, to be on an advisory board at the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. I read the paper titled High Technology Entrepreneurs and the Patent System: Results of the 2008 Berkeley Patent Survey when it came out at the end of June 2010.

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The Paradox of VC Value-Add

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Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran. Instead, we wanted to be extremely close to the entrepreneurs and do all the work ourselves. You may recognize Scott’s name – I wrote about him in my post When VCs Don’t B t You. We didn’t want associates.

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Foundry Group Next

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We broke this rule recently to make an investment in AvidXchange, a business run by an entrepreneur who I have known for over 20 years. He has been on our advisory board and for the past eight years has been a key advisor to us. This was a bold move, as we only had one commitment at the time.