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HOW TO: Hire the Perfect CTO

mashable.com

He is a serial entrepreneur, internationally syndicated columnist, angel investor, public speaker and author of the best-selling book Never Get a “Real&# Job: How To Dump Your Boss, Build a Business and Not Go Broke. As a non-technical founder of an IT company, it’s important to know when to dish responsibilities off.

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Getting Back the Band Together for NextView’s Investment in BookBub

Genuine VC

Just about fifteen years ago, Josh Schanker and I, along with our co-founders Elliot Shmukler and Tammy O’Neil Bolduc started Sombasa Media together. Series A financing. On top of it, this financing is a bit of a “getting the band back together” of sorts. Today BookBub is announcing its $3.8M

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ProfessorVC: Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJ's

Professor VC

One comment made by Jason was that angels tend to be less sensitive than VCs on valuation and can potentially make it difficult to get a venture financing done at acceptable valuation. This will both reduce the number of angel investors and make it more difficult to syndicate across stage lines. Dumb Money - Are we as dumb as we look?

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Handling rejection

VC Adventure

I just tweeted about an unfortunate email exchange I just had with a company founder, but 140 characters isn’t enough to really do the matter justice. It’s hard to get people interested in a new social networking idea these days (even those who say that privacy is important). Any interest? So has everyone I know.

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ProfessorVC: Touched by an Angel

Professor VC

One of my comments was that we would likely see more institutionalization of angel groups and syndication of deals among groups. He then went on to say that this type of financing was good for the entrepreneur (vs taking VC money) because they got to keep more of the company. My facebook can beat up your facebook. ► January. (1).

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Handling rejection

VC Adventure

I just tweeted about an unfortunate email exchange I just had with a company founder, but 140 characters isn’t enough to really do the matter justice. It’s hard to get people interested in a new social networking idea these days (even those who say that privacy is important). Any interest? So has everyone I know.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Tim Friedman, Founder, PE Stack , said, “If I could offer one piece of advice to today’s managers, it would be to take the time to understand the demands of the modern institutional LP. Boardex and Relationship Science make it easier to understand and map social networks into potential limited partners. 3) Raise capital.