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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. The picture was of a man in a doctors office that was really irritated. After Office 2.0 Is it a long drive into the City (San Francisco) for you?”

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

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Contact Contact Us Submit News Submit a Bug. Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use. Young founders tend to complicate things too much, from structuring partnership agreements, financing, leases, etc. Even today, we have kids come into our offices at least once a week to help test what were doing. Watercooler.

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8 Hard-Earned Insights Into Raising Startup Capital

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Derek Shanahan , Chief Community Officer of Foodtree. Like most first-time entrepreneurs, we were so excited by our first term sheet — and scared we wouldn’t get another — that we came very close to accepting it, even though the investors weren’t the best fit. Choose your investors carefully. When we raised our $1.3

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