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ProfessorVC: Crowdfunding - Good Idea or Really, Really Stupid.

Professor VC

Since small businesses are responsible for the vast majority of new jobs, legislators believe that these new rules will make it easier for entrepreneurs to raise capital and ramp up hiring. My skeptical side assumes that the intermediaries are the only ones that will make money in aggregate on these deals. Steve Bennet. 7.5 - 10.5%

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

It'd be great if we could somehow hire people all over the world, that would be great. It kind of aggregates technology content, I suppose. And so while she was at IBM, we were living in San Jose, California, where I grew up in the Bay Area. And so you want a lot of variety in the people that you hire.

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Episode 3: A Startup Comic Book Company, How to Find a Mentor, and #BigData – The Bcast

Up and Running

Someone tweeted out of San Jose, they did a really amazing review of the book. How do you hire? These companies, SageWorks, SizeUp, and there’s others, basically aggregate anonymously thousands and thousands of companies’ information. That ink smell. They really liked the book. That’s pretty awesome. How do you fire?