Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 25, 2009

This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. Either you’re not a good leader and he shouldn’t be investing at all, or he has no clue what it takes to build a startup.&#. I hired a guy, Azhar Khan, who was raised in the Indian subcontinent (Pakistan, actually) but educated and worked his whole life in the US.

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VC Cafe

JUNE 29, 2012

Google I/O: It’s a startup world. To achieve the trifecta of startup success (money, talent, ideas), a vibrant startup community can make the difference between success and failure. It created awesome companies, but the army doesn’t do ecommerce, or much mobile, which are now the biggest growth engines in startups.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

New York is now the second-most-active tech ecosystem in the US on all key metrics, after the Bay Area. New York venture capitalists like HOF Capital recognize this trend, and more and more of us are opening our doors to invest in startups with international roots. They burnt their ships behind them. Easier to scale internationally.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 20, 2019

You see like Silicon Valley, Hawaii is becoming its own startup paradise. For many startups, this can be some of the hardest money to raise because traditional metrics aren’t well established, yet. That still feels like a huge and worthwhile objective to me. Thanks to Robert Stolk, Pointer Brand Protection ! #9-

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