Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. VCs don’t have the same net worth litmus test and great entrepreneurs have a ton of sources for seed money to get financed very early. I want our associate to have empathy for the customers we serve — our portfolio companies. Not my problem.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Accelerators are mainly focused on helping companies achieve business growth in a short period of time, typically a few months, hence the term “accelerator” They support young companies by providing mentorship and seed money. million of them in their database.

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Kodorra

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Accelerators are mainly focused on helping companies achieve business growth in a short period of time, typically a few months, hence the term “accelerator” They support young companies by providing mentorship and seed money. million of them in their database.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

Chris Dixon provided some commentary on Twitter that he believes I missed “the most important point about fund size.&# He’s specifically referring to his point of view that entrepreneurs shouldn’t take seed money from “big VC’s&# (he defines them as > $100 million).

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

You need three things to create a successful startup: to start withgood people, to make something customers actually want, and to spendas little money as possible. They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Also if one has a portal that is massive in ideas such as Yahoo, Facebook, Google, Twitter, and YouTube combined like my own without third party back ends it cost a pretty penny to build a custom one if one did not know about clones etc. Thus engineers who have the know how would be an asset. All what you said is so true.

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pandodaily.com

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

If you are raising a seed round now, there are a few things you can do to protect yourself. There are still the same debates on whether or not you should take seed money from VCs. See those things around your legs, cloud customer? Entrepreneurs are survivors by nature. The terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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