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How to Develop Your Fund Raising Strategy

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These include building products, recruiting, managing your finances, marketing, selling, getting feedback from customers and … fund raising. Well if the “why buy anything” is testing whether you’re even compatible with a VC, the “why buy me” has got to be extreme differentiation. why buy me?

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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In fact, 50% of our investments are in Southern California, from Santa Barbara to San Diego. You may have a strong sense of purpose, a great and differentiated product or service and a great team surrounding you but if you don’t learn to empower your team you’ll never be as effective of a leader as you should be.

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Think Your Start-up Is Venture Worthy? Think Again.

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Tweet View Comments Sarah Lacy Feb 19, 2010 Pepperdine has a new study out that attempts to shed some light on the clubby, shadowy world of private finance. Similarly, the bulk of the companies getting funding are still California-based. Paglia, Pepperdiine’s Denney Academic Chair and Associate Professor of Finance. Think Again.