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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

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But rest assured valuations get reset. Even then private market investors can paper over valuation changes by investing at the same price but with more structure so it’s hard to understand the “headline valuation.” First in late-stage tech companies and then it will filter back to Growth and then A and ultimately Seed Rounds.

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I Know Everybody Told You to Send Your Fund-Raising Decks as a Link.

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I know that you can use an email system with this to track my open rate, whether I forwarded the email, the IP address where I read it, whether I was on a mobile device or a wired computer and you can tell who else read the document. or “that would be awesome” then I think you’re doing something wrong anyways. What should be in your deck?

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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You should seek to get people who are respected by others in your field and who will therefore make it easier to raise the rest of your angel round.&#. These are the people who make the early commitment to you to fund your round before having any social proof.

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Why You Should Embrace Opposing Views at Your Startup

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go on, listen to it as you read the rest of this post]. I talked to one company who had build really differentiated IP and had great customer traction. Cab Driver ” [ok, if you don't know this song do yourself a favor, click on the link and listen to it.] So I played Lenny and … I got boo’ed. Eff you guys!

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How Great, Operationally-Focused CFO’s Can Transform Your Business

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Legal threats from other IP holders? Having an amazing and operationally focused CFO has freed up the rest of the team to achieve even more while giving the board much more confidence in our strategic direction. You really want to spend your time on that? Who is leading your patent filing program? Who is dealing with trademarks?

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What to do About that Chip on Your Shoulder?

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Well – he had this awesome platform that was super technical – great IP. The best revenge will be to be successful so you can be smug around him for the rest of your life!” He has the “perfect business for me” given my blog commentary. Would I hear him out? He was from Harvard. Smart – check.

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I’m sticking with Disqus. Here’s Why

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And I am one of those who is concerns about Facebook overreach into the rest of my life. In the rare instances where I get a troll I’m able to delete their comment and block them by email address or IP address. I’m not a Facebook hater, to the contrary. But I don’t want it becoming the web.