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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

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Meredith came to see me along with the CTO Marc Berte. Meredith Perry came up with the idea for uBeam while still in college at University of Pennsylvania and like many great inventors won her school’s business plan competition. Would they build a world class team.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI

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You’re sales person is getting blocked by the CTO who says she shouldn’t go above him but the CTO isn’t approving the deal. He refined his business plan and he got commitments for $150-200k but needed some lead angels to commit first. Should she take a chance and potentially ruffle feathers?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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Another called Parker Harris, the co-founder and CTO. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). In case VC’s haven’t figured this out yet, shit rolls downhill.