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Welcome to the Lost Decade (for Entrepreneurs, IPO’s and VC’s)

Steve Blank

VC’s invested their limited partners’ “risk capital” in a portfolio of startups in exchange for illiquid stock. This changed their interest from managing your board for their liquidity to managing the board for all shareholders. But not all industries are as capital efficient as the Web or Information Technology.

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Blue Collar VC

Mucker Lab

Just as entrepreneurs should aspire to raise capital from value-added, “smart money” investors, we, too, have focused on partnering with committed, long-term, institutional limited partners (LPs). We’ve been doing Internet stuff our whole careers, since the graphical web became a mass-market, commercial medium in the 1990s.

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With So Many Options for Marketing Your Business, What Content Should You Promote Where?

David Teten

At HOF Capital , we try to manage these layers to be “ MECE ” (Mutually Exclusive, Collectively Exhaustive). To the extent possible, we try to use our social media presence to point back to our website, our Partners, and/or our portfolio companies’ websites. Fundamentally, we control our web presence. Email templates.

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New San Diego VC Firm Emerges as ‘The Moneyball of Venture Capital’ | Xconomy

www.xconomy.com

Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. In fact, by using analytics software that relies on a different way of measuring risk, the San Diego firm is becoming known in some circles as “the Moneyball of venture capital,” according to David Coats, a co-founder and managing partner. President and CEO, Complete Genomics.

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Reinventing the Board Meeting – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are no standards for what each side (board versus management) does. Angel investments in mobile and web apps today are approaching the “throw it against the wall and see if it sticks” strategy.

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Why Board Meetings Suck – Part 1 of 2

Steve Blank

Investors get board seats to assure themselves and their limited partners that they are duly informed about their investment. There are no standards for what each side (board versus management) does. Angel investments in mobile and web apps today are approaching the “throw it against the wall and see if it sticks” strategy.

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Why being a partner at VC fund is like running a rising startup

The Next Web

Jason Lemkin is the Managing Director at Storm Ventures , a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage enterprise and IT companies, including MobileIron , Marketo and GuideSpark. Second, to pay salaries and expenses, venture funds typically charge a 2 percent management fee. It certainly did to me when I was an entrepreneur.

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