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Lightspeed VC Michael Mignano on Why Apple’s Threats Influenced His Decision to Sell Anchor to Spotify, Why No FOMO in Venture is Good (AI Aside), & What NYC Founders Need to Realize

Hunter Walker

Specifically I’ve had the chance to spend meaningful time over the years with Michael Mignano as he went from startup CEO to Executive/Angel Investor and now VC Partner at Lightspeed. We felt that if Apple cut off our distribution to Apple Podcasts, the value of the Anchor offering would be greatly diminished.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. So having spent a lot of time thinking about this Silicon Valley is a thing in and of itself. So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley.

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Practical Strategies For Starting A Business

Duct Tape Marketing

Well, Steve Hoffman (02:34): First of all, I did three venture funded startups in Silicon valley and two bootstrap startups. We called them founder space, round tables, and we'd meet, I'd introduce 'em to angel investors and marketing experts and lawyers, and really try to help them get off the ground.

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How to Raise Money – It’s a Journey Not An Event

Steve Blank

These elements of the business model– revenue (pricing, pricing strategy), distribution channel, How to Get/Keep/Grow customers, Key Activities, Resources and Costs – are other, critical parts your start up needs to understand and have in place. At the low-end this might come from friends, family or angel investors.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

Both Sides of the Table

Again, Seth: “One of the things I noticed when I looked around at startups is that often the founding teams hired people just like themselves. Stanford was also the right place because of nearby Silicon Valley. Meebo angel investors also include Marc Andreessen and Auren Hoffman. We then spoke about startups.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

note: apologies in advance for the west coast bias; i’m in silicon valley). Many of these now-trendy Micro-VC funds began as individual angel investors who gradually grew up and started small funds (myself included). These two divergent groups have optimized for very different market conditions and behaviors.

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The Series A crunch is hitting now. Have we even noticed?

pandodaily.com

I’ve been hearing about the so-called Series A Crunch for at least six months, and in recent weeks, I’ve spoken with more than 20 venture capitalists, angel investors, incubator heads, lawyers, and other necessary cogs in the ecosystem trying to get some details about it. On November 28, 2012.