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JANUARY 16, 2012

There is all sorts of advice on the Internet about how to raise capital. I raised money as an entrepreneur, like you, in 1999, 2000, 2001, 2003 and 2005 for two different companies. I’ve tried to make this advice as well-rounded and biased free as I can. Spend time researching your buyers and not just pitching them.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. I lose sleep.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

This is an updated post from my ongoing series on Startup Advice that I learned from founding two companies. . By Monday morning after their board meeting in NorCal I didn’t get a return phone call. In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. I HATE LOSING. I hate it. I lose sleep.

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JANUARY 31, 2010

So I decided to run the London Marathon in April 2003, just 3 weeks before my son was born. April 29th, 2003 my first son was born. I started my second company while retaining a board seat at my first company. I stopped doing conferences, traveling or pitching to VCs. But the story doesn’t end there.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2013

They weren’t with you when you did the VC pitch where you looked them in the eyes 9 months ago and said, “I see only one outcome, we want to build something really big. It’s 2003 and VCs aren’t exactly lining up to fund startup businesses. Startup Advice' They see the dollar signs and the victory.

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AUGUST 15, 2009

In the 2003/04 timefame I was living in the UK and running my first company. We assumed they would take our advice and upgrade. Given that it was a public tender the chairman of our board had encouraged us to think about launching a complaint with the UK government agency in charge of such reviews. We talked with lawyers.

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