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Choose Your VC Investor Carefully

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Many years ago I worked at Andersen Consulting, originally developing software for large corporations and then as a strategy consultant. At my first company, which was based in London, we decided to set up a development facility in India. He also had experience in setting up tech development centers in India.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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In the initial phases of any new market you’re developing a product (hopefully with a minimal set of features), getting feedback from customers, refining your product based on user feedback and then re-launching your product. Markets develop for a complex set of factors that are often beyond all of our control.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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Many questioned whether it could survive under the fail whale, inevitable competition from Facebook, founder fighting, fights with 3rd-party developers let alone become a revolutionary business that could make money. When Fred Wilson funded Twitter I guarantee you it wasn’t obvious that it was a billion dollar idea. Far from it.

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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TWTFelipe is the founder of TWTApps , who had developed some really cool add-on applications for Twitter to extend its functionality. By 2005 I had moved back to the US and we started hiring US employees (The first two employees we hired had both grown up in India! But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs.

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The Importance of Teams and Why the Best Leaders Cultivate Them

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The show has become my best curator of which books to read (including my favorite of last year, The Accidental Superpower ) and my go to for understanding geopolitics of: Russia, Iran, Pakistan, China, India and of course the US. But they also take on issues in science, technology and management.

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Do Less. More.

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Everyone is a rock star developers, every company is crushing it and when they’re not crushing it they’re killing it. Do fewer business development deals but make the ones you do have more impact. They don’t feel the need to do a deal in NYC today, India next week, SF the following.

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Seth Sternberg – Meebo

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I use to to learn, to grow, to ask questions for which I’m curious and to further develop relationships that I have. After Meebo launched, his friends helped him get the word out and soon they were getting coverage as far a China and India. So do I waste my hour per week on camera and my hour of discussion before hand?