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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. There was no viral social networking products back then like Twitter where people could easily discover your content. Distributed version control model – first in the industry like ours and we are filing patents. Page 4: Business Model.

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

1) Your idea is undifferentiated Investors see thousands of businesses a year. And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post. We are currently a small fund.

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Why an investor rejection isn't a knock on you

Hippoland

1) Your idea is undifferentiated Investors see thousands of businesses a year. And, your idea is 50th social networking site of the week. 3) Your business model seems flawed OR is not the right fit I talked a lot about unit economics and sales cycles in my last post. We are currently a small fund.