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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

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Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. Your financial risks of starting most technology companies these days are so low. You have kids, a mortgage, MBA debt?

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Understanding the Risks of VC Signaling

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Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million).