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

Both Sides of the Table

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. At the end of the process, which ran into the fall of 2003, we received term sheets from two firms and had a third which expressed interest in participating though not leading the round. We three partners are working hard. May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M

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There Is Only ONE Silicon Valley

Gust

It hosts an environment which many other communities have attempted to emulate, although they haven’t and won’t. Many other communities are entrepreneur-friendly and, by any measure, have the tools in place to spawn new high growth companies. The Valley has been a unique place for over half a century.

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How to Work with Lawyers at a Startup

Both Sides of the Table

Local : many entrepreneurs like to use their old friend from Boston even though they’re now living in Boulder. He’s totally tapped into the startup communities in Silicon Valley and a bit in LA. Focus on the partner you would be working with. One issue he talked about was working with partners.

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Splitting vs. Expanding the Pie: Thoughts on the New Early-Stage VCs in Boston

Rob Go

Recently, I’ve been spending a fair bit of time with a number of the new early-stage investors in Boston. Just last week, Axios announced that Stephen Marcus is raising a fund called Riot Ventures and Term Sheet announced that Nilanjana Bhowmik from Longworth will be joining Converge. First Star Ventures (FKA Procyon).

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I Want My CIC! … The Benefits for Startups to Be Co-Located

Both Sides of the Table

This past December I spent a week in Boston to try to get to know some of the local VC’s and entrepreneurs a bit better. I’m surprised how few people talk about valuations, term sheet terms, how much to pay recruiters, etc. Dogpatch was the brainchild of Mike Hirshland , partner at Polaris.

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New Plain Preferred Term Sheet

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