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What Does the Post Crash VC Market Look Like?

Both Sides of the Table

We do deals in NYC, Paris, Seattle, Austin, San Francisco, London?—?but We have a team of 7 in San Francisco (a counter bet on our belief that the Bay Area is an amazing place.) 40% of our deals are done in Los Angeles but 100% of our deals leverage the LA networks we have built for 25 years.

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5 Sure-fire Ways to Bomb Your Investor Pitch

Up and Running

I have a vivid memory of bombing a pitch that I was delivering to a group of angel investors in Seattle. I’m not saying you’re going to get it right every time, but what’s important is to learn from those mistakes and adjust your pitch the next time you deliver it, based on what you’ve learned. Bombing the Pitch.

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A Few Key People Really Can Make a Huge Difference

Both Sides of the Table

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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How to Improve Profit by an Average of 11.1%

Austin Startup

That goes for any industry, location or product; from enterprise SaaS in my home town of Austin, to live music ticket sales in Virginia, to B2C services in Seattle. Do you have patents or IP wedges that create defensible moats around your differentiation? How do they compare to your competition?

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Flings Pop-Up Recycling and Trash Bins

Feld Thoughts

A few years ago, several friends started a company called Evergreen IP to help inventors commercialize their consumer innovations. And they are available at most Safeway stores in Seattle, Portland, and Northern CA; at most Vons in Southern CA; at most HEB’s in Texas; and at all Price Choppers in New York State/Western CT.

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What Businesses Need To Know In The Wake Of The Equifax Breach

YoungUpstarts

And seeing multiple new accounts coming from the same IP address or device is a red flag for a single person creating many accounts. A software engineer at heart, Jason was an early engineer at a few Seattle startups (Zillow, Optify, BuzzLabs), before migrating to San Francisco to start Sift Science in 2011.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

However, there is the concept of "mutual" NDA, which should give your IP equal protection if you share any of yours. or Seattle. Most NDAs I have seen are very one-sided and have unreasonable time limits, which in the tech sector are sometimes moot. The essential design paradigm can be sketched on the back of an envelope. or Portland.

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