Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

One of the biggest mistakes entrepreneurs make is misunderstanding the role of venture capital investors. There’s lots of lore, emotion, and misconceptions of what VC’s do or don’t do for entrepreneurs. In this time, building a successful business meant building a company that had paying customers quarter after quarter.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

I sent out a few emails to mentors of mine who had been VCs in the 1980s. As dollars flowed into the industry, cooperation was replaced by competition, to the detriment of deal flow, due diligence, ability to add value and, of course, returns. However, there were some things in it that didn’t ring true for me.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

Blasting the same quick email to a dozen investors will never work in your favor. The best introductions come from people who have brought good deal flows to investors in the past. Savvy entrepreneurs put in the time doing their due diligence on potential connections and then ask the strongest connector for the introduction.

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Version One Ventures

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

We can whittle down those 30,000 companies to a more manageable number by filtering for business models, regions, state, co-investors, Twitter mentions, Facebook likes, LinkedIn connections, iTunes downloads, unique website visitors, and/or other criteria that align with our investment thesis. Be thesis-driven. Manage your time wisely.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 28, 2011

On July 1, 2006, commenting on the Indian startup scenario, I had written a blog post called Too Much Money, Too Few Deals. Today, the Indian scenario has improved greatly, but still the issue of lack of a mature deal flow remains. If you have additional questions, please email me and I would be very happy to respond.

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Tim Keane

MAY 22, 2006

« Compensation for Entrepreneurs | Main.    Just this morning,  he called to tell you how enthused he was.   I've seen: A business fall into the hands of a minority investor who controlled the offshore manufacturing.  Good deals do none of these things.  Signup for email updates.

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David Teten

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Small investment firms often have interns and entrepreneurs in residence passing through, each of which is a security risk. At Flow Capital, we use HubSpot’s sequences and workflows functions to automate a bulk of our emails and internal tasks. I said we had a lot of deal flow. 2) Market . Her answer? ‘I

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