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The Shift from FOMO to FOLD in Early Stage Investing

View from Seed

I think you’ll also see more intentional syndication of seed and series A rounds with like-minded co-investors teaming up together and splitting rounds more intentionally. Also, companies that do find PMF and can attract capital will experience less competition for customers and employees.

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8 Ways That Blogging Will Kickstart Your Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

Blogging is one of the best ways to do this and build a brand, even before you have a product or service. Thus I recommend that every entrepreneur start blogging in parallel with solution development for the following benefits: Get customer idea feedback before you commit resources. Develop an efficient and effective writing style.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See best practices in building financial models , a template financial model , and valuing startup employee options.

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How to Launch, Manage, and Invest a VC Fund

David Teten

Over the past decade, I’ve (somewhat accidentally) put together on this blog a syllabus on how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. See my summary on how lead investors think about building out their syndicate. . See best practices in building financial models , a template financial model , and valuing startup employee options.

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An Investor’s Personal Social Media Tech Stack: In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 followers

David Teten

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. The first three tools are only relevant if you’re going to generate significant content yourself: Teten.com , my blog and content marketing strategy. I typically publish essays in a major media venue, and then cross-post it on my blog. I host on Hostforweb **.

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Do Less. More.

Both Sides of the Table

There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Hire fewer employees until you’re bursting at the seems with work for the ones you have.

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Why We Invested in Marlo

View from Seed

It’s no surprise to me that fast-forward a few months later, along with some seed capital from NextView and our syndicate partner Underscore to accelerate their efforts, the team has grown the service to reach dozens of companies and employees of all stripes, as featured in today’s Scott Kirsner Globe article.