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Succeeding in Venture Capital as an Introvert

Hunter Walker

When it comes to my job, after practicing venture capital for seven years under normal circumstances, it was instructive to get thrown into this new scenario, because I don’t think we’ll ever fully “return to normal.” Instead, we’ll blend aspects of pre-2020 and our experiences from the past year into a “new normal.”

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How to Create Free Buzz for Your Startup

David Teten

I particularly urge you to review SpeakerNetNews ; it contains a tremendous amount of curated wisdom from professional speakers: how to be a more powerful speaker, deal with distracting audiences, etc. Host an event. See my previous blog post for a list of tech conferences and ways to get in. Photo credit: Zitona.

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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

Draw Your Ideas - A VC : Venture Capital and Technology , May 16, 2010 I saw Jack Dorsey give this talk at The 99% Conference last month. Dan McKinley and Wil Stuckey from the Etsy Curation team here. We'll be your hosts for a three-part series about the use of MongoDB here at Etsy. The Curation Team. Tesla is not.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

In the venture capital/private equity business, investors are B2B microinfluencers. I host on Hostforweb **. PEVCTech.com , a community for investors and technologists responsible for investing in private companies, primarily at private equity and venture capital funds. This is hosted by NFX.

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How to Build a Successful and Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio Without Really Trying

This is going to be BIG.

After checking out The Information's "open dataset" on diversity in venture capital , I felt pretty disappointed. I went back and calculated the number of companies in the first Brooklyn Bridge Ventures portfolio who have at least one founder who is female, from an underrepresented minority group, or LGBT.

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The Collaborative Web: Github is the New Flickr

This is going to be BIG.

Github is a web based hosting service for software development projects that use Git, a revision control system. People used to ask you where you are present--where you can be found--and it was all about what you consumed, curated and liked. The seminal application of the collaborative web--Github--was launched in April 2008.

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Opportunities for startups in the creator economy

VC Cafe

Let’s start with a short definition: [the creator economy] is defined as the class of businesses built by over 50 million independent content creators, curators, and community builders including social media influencers, bloggers, and videographers, plus the software and finance tools designed to help them with growth and monetization.

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