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Top 29 Startup Posts May 2010

SoCal CTO

"Authentic" is dead - A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks , May 3, 2010 It's time to retire the following phrases. He’d wasted a year of his life and had a pile of stock options that weren’t very interesting. If you can just be friendly enough and get your users to party with you, the rest is really easy.

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What Makes an Entrepreneur? Cojones (7/11)

Both Sides of the Table

Being tenacious without the mental flexibility to pivot based on market feedback is a disaster. If this idea was so big then why would they risk not being first to market, not building defensible IP for the sake of a few hundred thousand dollars extra in lock-up money at a big company? I finally called bullshit. I had nothing to lose!

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Why Internal Ventures are Different from External Startups

Steve Blank

The external startup has to work long hours, and make many pivots, to identify the product-market fit, validate the MVP, and articulate a winning business model that can then be repeated and scaled. One memorable example of this was Xerox’s internal venture capital fund, Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV).

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Am I just a greedy VC?

VC Adventure

My partner Jason has an impassioned post up about the carried interest debate currently taking place in Congress. I have many of the same concerns that Jason outlines in his blog post about the move to change the tax treatment on carried interest. Obviously this issue is important to me and to all VCs.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. Marketing – if you have t-shirts / watches / swag, parties – all of this fits under this budget. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me.

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11 Things I've learned from running a micro VC in the last year

Hippoland

I enjoy learning about new technologies and ideas – and you get to see a lot of them in this business especially in early stage investing. Marketing – if you have t-shirts / watches / swag, parties – all of this fits under this budget. 1) It is absolutely the best job in the world for me.

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The Industry Needs to do One Thing to Avoid Regulation: Provide Better Phone Support

Hunter Walker

Besides my random power fantasies, this post was prompted by a discussion with a very smart marketing and comms exec in the wake of the SVB bank run. When she asked what would I recommend my response wasn’t about getting rid of carried interest or breaking up the big companies but about customer support.