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To Follow On or Not to Follow On

This is going to be BIG.

So, the idea that it's a good or bad idea to follow on, or to play in certain stages versus others--honestly, it's a lot of marketing hype and anecdotal stories that really don't play out across the law of large numbers. Some of this thinking is also driven by folks who aren't well connected to the rest of the later stage venture community.

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How to Start a Startup

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They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An Andyet theres a lot of money at stake. At this stage the company is just a bet. Ididnt realize that when we were raising money.

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