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The Magic of Dealing With Your Demons

Feld Thoughts

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. “There was this moment where you admitted to each other that you were working with him.

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Angel Investing – The Most Underrated Skill: Access to Buyers

Both Sides of the Table

Imagine that you funded Larry & Sergey, Chad Hurley & Steve Chen, Mark Zuckerberg, Mark Pincus or Evan Williams. He’s backed so many of the Silicon Valley’s young elite tech professionals. Or eBay / PayPal, Salesforce.com, Skype, etc. He knew them when there were young and accessible.

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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. Chad and Steve. We know Steve and Chad. I finally got transferred, and the move to France, we had three tech centers around the world. We see Larry and David. Mark and Eduardo.

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Burnout « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Hitting “burnout” changed the trajectory of both ends of my career in Silicon Valley. Zilog Zilog was my first Silicon Valley company where you could utter the customer’s name in public. Recovery That weekend I left the Valley and drove along the coast from San Francisco to Monterey. The bill had come due.

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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. org/index.php?op. Brad Feld does the best blog term sheet series. So good, in fact, I seldom try to write on the topic.

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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 Partners – Silicon 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.