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Some Thoughts on Branding Startups and Communities

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Think about venture capital. But if you were going to start a venture capital fund today, you’d want to stand out. I know that I call them often to co-invest. True Ventures – When I was raising capital for my second company back in 2006 I had talked to many brand-name VCs and had several term sheets.

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

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This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. With open source software (LAMP stack) and cloud computing infrastructure it just wasn’t that expensive to get your company going and founders just wanted to raise less money. If a VC term sheet comes in they begin their due diligence process.