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Diversification – The Alternative to Market Timing

Rob Go

This equates to 3-4 new investments per year per partner, which is the pace at which we think we can be very active with companies during their first few years of life. We try to invest in companies with different “ paths to victory “ We’d like to see some companies that rely on viral consumer adoption.

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Get Off My Lawn! Crazy Kids and Their Sex, Drugs and Startup Advice!

This is going to be BIG.

A founder will raise one party round worth of seed money and they''ll go teach a class on how to raise venture capital. These represent the bulk of the people commenting, retweeting and liking your posts and sending it viral. That doesn''t feel like the perspective you get from a lot of advice givers these days. Growth hacking?

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