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Planning Your Fund Raising — “Measure Twice, Cut Once”

Both Sides of the Table

I know this is CRM 101 but I assure you most startups (and VCs) don’t do this or don’t do it well. If you’re building an education startup and you don’t see any logos of education companies on the firm’s website you are likely targeting the wrong firm. The second-pass qualification is “industry focus.” The third-pass is geography.

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The Hard Thing About a Hard City: Why I Support Kathryn Garcia for Mayor of NYC

This is going to be BIG.

Minneapolis voted to defund but then no one could agree on what that actually meant. If they can’t figure it out in Minneapolis, I’m not quite sure how they’re ever going to figure it out in New York. And, call it what you will—impromptu, inspiring, ambitious—but the one thing you cannot call his Presidential campaign was successful.

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