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The Magic of Dealing With Your Demons

Feld Thoughts

For example, I love my partners. It’s not an official thing, but there is this almost secret society of people who’ve been coached by Jerry.” – Chad Dickerson, Etsy CEO. Campbell had a testosterone-infused Silicon Valley kind of model. #GivingThanks: Jerry Colonna and Naropa University. The CEO Whisperer.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

There was one in Silicon Valley, unsurprising, one in Chicago, and there was this group out of the south of France that served all of Europe. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. ” “Okay, well you can be an operating partner or a venture partner.”

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Examples of good startup term sheets

www.quora.com

Anon User, Chad Lomax , Maor Ezer and Jay Liew 1. Wilson Sonsini (one of most respected law firms in Silicon Valley) does a "term sheet generator" here: [link] /wsgr/display. Ivan Gaviria , Partner at Gunderson Dettmer [link] 1 vote by Anon User Here is the Gunderson term sheet for a traditional Series A.

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Twitter Link Roundup #270 – Exemplary Resources for Small Business, Startups, and Design!

crowdSPRING Blog

Congratulations to Deacon and the animators, Jake Fried, Chad Vangaalen, Dimitri Stankowicz, Colin White, Taras Hrabowsky, Anthony Schepperd, Masanobu Hiraoka, Caleb Wood, KOKOFreakbean! NerdWallet raised $64 million in Series A led by Institutional Venture PartnersSilicon Valley Business Journal [link] crowdspring.co/1IClQlq

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A Lost Generation of Entrepreneurs?

Seeing Both Sides

That was my first reaction when I read what Sequoia's Doug Leone said a few weeks ago about innovation and age at a recent talk with MIT Sloan students visiting Silicon Valley, where Leone claimed that only people under the age of 30 are truly innovative.

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Finding Your Co-Founders

techcrunch.com

Chad and Steve from YouTube met while working at PayPal. In Silicon Valley, rock climbing’s a current hot spot for startup folks. SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. To be blunt, find a way to move to Silicon Valley.