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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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My blog linked to Brad Feld’s blog because I was so grateful for his series on term sheets and he was one of the biggest reasons that as a VC I felt compelled to blog. The picture was of a man in a doctors office that was really irritated. After Office 2.0 Is it a long drive into the City (San Francisco) for you?”

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8 Hard-Earned Insights Into Raising Startup Capital

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Derek Shanahan , Chief Community Officer of Foodtree. Like most first-time entrepreneurs, we were so excited by our first term sheet — and scared we wouldn’t get another — that we came very close to accepting it, even though the investors weren’t the best fit. Choose your investors carefully. When we raised our $1.3

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

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Contact Contact Us Submit News Submit a Bug. Legal Privacy Policy Terms of Use. We spent six months fundraising only to walk away once we had a term sheet in hand because we realized we were making enough money to sustain and grow the business on our own terms. Watercooler. Social Media. Entertainment.

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