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So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.” So when I got into venture capital, I thought, “Well, what can I do that’s different?” ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.”

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JUNE 9, 2013

Venture capital will be easy and then hard. They are taking the same approach as an Uber or Lyft (finding drivers who want to earn a bit more) and in stead of matching them up with consumers they match them up with local retailers to deliver goods to people’s homes. Will this Trend Last? That always happens.

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MARCH 12, 2013

And Greg was a perfect match for all of these. His plans are still solidifying but will likely involve some later-stage activities in the eCommerce & retail sectors unrelated to early-stage venture capital. When I think about what defines us as a VC I think: Operationally knowledgeable / strong startup competence.

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

I know that people find safety in numbers (and there always seems to be 3 amigos) but imagine this for a moment – you go and raise venture capital and you’re fighting over whether to dilute with a VC by 25% or 30% as a company. For me 3+ is usually a non starter.

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OCTOBER 4, 2009

It’s what kills most sales cycles including raising venture capital. Great sales leaders know that you can only sell effectively when your sales cycle matches the customers buying cycle. Why Buy Now? The real test of sales and the topic of my post is “why buy now.”

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NOVEMBER 4, 2009

If you never raise another round of venture capital (a big if) and if your company is sold for the normal venture exit ($50 million on average for 200 or so annually that get sold) then what is your stake? But you need to match your talents, age, skills, ambition and economic situation with your current reality.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2012

Obviously press narratives of people are characterizations that seldom match reality. It was a journalist who covered Venture Capital. .” He didn’t try to come off as too smart. He has a message he wanted to get across and he did so in a folksy manner. But here’s the thing.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2010

There is no chance they’re going to invest and it’s not even a close match. They are at the tops of their classes and want to get into private equity or venture capital some day. No reason not to call him but I wouldn’t get too excited about it. Why do VCs send generic outbound emails like this?

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AUGUST 1, 2010

They either do too many seed investments (for which they can spend no quality time with any) or they treat it as an option (“if you succeed come back and see us and we’ll match any term sheet you get&# ) – they view it as a sort of “right of first refusal.&#. The signaling affect is overrated.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I don’t believe you can hire great business people who outsource the development to a hot incubator who builds you code to match your ambitions.

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MAY 15, 2010

Next Wednesday we’ll have Dana Settle of Greycroft Partners, a New York / LA early-stage venture capital fund. Leverages persistent cookie to follow a user and display recurring display advertising that matches a previous transaction intent or behavior. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA.

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APRIL 12, 2018

The minute your company reaches its peak acceleration in terms of growth is when all of the sleeping giants wake up to compete with you and will spend massive amounts of money to keep you from capturing a growth market and other talented entrepreneurs will raise large amounts of venture capital as people start to see value in the market.

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JANUARY 16, 2012

” These are people with whom there is a likely match for your product or service. So why would raising venture capital be any different. The total universe of VCs are what we call in sales “suspects” – otherwise known as “the top end of your funnel.” ” All VCs want early access.

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MAY 17, 2017

I had the good fortune of sitting down privately with Sir Richard and listening to him talk about his venture capital activities and what interested him, but what got him most animated was when he spoke about Jamie and Ring. link] Jamie is also backed by Britain’s biggest innovator of this generation — Sir Richard Branson.

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AUGUST 17, 2009

2006 was the last time I went out to raise venture capital. They immediately agreed to match True’s terms. I had multiple term sheets to do my Series A financing. Many had the typical investor-friendly terms where entrepreneurs would get screwed and not even understand how they got screwed until many years later.

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MARCH 6, 2011

Other Important Discussions in this Section you Shouldn’t Miss: I talk about how your own personal brand can actually hinder your funding process (be self aware of how others perceive you, seek out investors who match with your style). Some of their goals are to incorporate better matching and filtering for investors.

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DECEMBER 22, 2011

In any event, they had such scale advantages in providing this Internet infrastructure that to this day nobody in the industry has come close to matching them. In other words, storage might have been a “loss leader.” In my estimation this is one of the biggest strategic mistakes Google has made in not competing more aggressively with AWS.

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AUGUST 30, 2010

Some of the delay is just overhang of a bad market but we may be delaying true supply/demand matching through the well-intentioned government’s attempt to stem price declines. I’m a venture capital investor so I will still be looking to make investments. In the end.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2011

Today, innovation is happening at an increasingly faster rate and , that being true, Thomas thought it was more efficient to match capital to ideas than execute the ideas himself. Thomas said it was partially the lifestyle, but mostly that he had a lot of ideas but limited execution. The hard part is always the execution.

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MARCH 10, 2014

He saw a few terrible ones and like a fashion advisor telling you that your shoes and belt are supposed to match colors he pointed out the things in visual design for presentations that I never knew. This Week in Venture Capital' So now I suck much less. I appreciate your pro-activeness and your patience with me.

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