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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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NAME Comcast. NAME Verizon Communications. NAME Yahoo. NAME Shikhar Ghosh. NAME Toby Stuart. NAME Daniel Dreymann. NAME Charles Holloway. NAME David Cowan. The 20-year venture capitalist is an "angel" investor in Mr. Dreymanns new start-up, Mowingo Inc., INTERNET BUSINESSES.

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The Power of Connection

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Meetup.com and Eventbrite , founded on this principle of meeting in person as a response to too much Internet meeting, has helped to spawn, grow and change thousands of startups. He had on a name tag, I didn’t. We couldn’t move. So get out there, go to things that you like and are interested in.

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Be Audacious, like Sophia Amoruso.

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If you look at some of the best inventions on the Internet and throughout time, they’ve either been accidents or major audacity. She had no business experience, no fashion experience, no Internet experience, didn’t know what e-commerce meant and zero $ in the bank. She actually had to acquire the URL from a porn site.