This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

You can have a pretty nice life that way if you're willing to make the upfront investment in learning a craft and working hard to be the best. You can have a pretty nice life that way if you're willing to make the upfront investment in learning a craft and working hard to be the best. 2) Trial by fire.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

A lot of people ask me what I think of posting to Twitter these days… (I’ll start calling it X as soon as I learn to stop saying Battery Tunnel and Triborough Bridge). Whether you want to continue to post to it is up to you—but I always tell people that creating content should be an exercise in creating value for yourself first.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

She hasn’t raised any venture capital. She drove her company to profitability before paying herself a modest salary. She leveraged herself and even sold many of her possessions to get started. And when her assets were tapped she rented out her bedroom and even her couch on Airbnb to afford her year-one operations. More on that later.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

AUGUST 2, 2023

Peer-reviewed studies find clear associations between longer commuting times and lower job satisfaction, increased stress, and poorer mental health. That means using data-driven methods to determine what endeavors offer the best return-on-investment for in-office work to make them worth the commute.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

So it’s really hard to draw too many conclusions about whether the investment really makes sense because often you learn stuff in the fund raising about the future strategy of the company that might make you much more excited than somebody on the outside might be. Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog.

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Angel Capital Association

MAY 6, 2021

By: Sarah Dickey, ACA Membership Director Boston-Area Angels Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile Receive Hans Severiens Award for Individual Impact in Advancing the Field of Angel Investing. Ham and Christopher met in the busy Boston angel investing community where they both started and operated angel networks.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

What are the ‘jobs to be done’ of an investment manager? The macro trends forcing change on the investment management industry. The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a scout, getting compensated for sourcing investments. More posts by this contributor. Akshat Dixit. Contributor.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

DECEMBER 15, 2016

We are used to investing in the business, but as entrepreneurs we don’t about think taking care of ourselves personally – that was a huge lesson.” She also points out the power EO Forums, a group of 9-12 peers that each member is assigned, as a sounding board, while providing insight and experience whenever needed.

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

JANUARY 6, 2020

At the start of 2020, Chelle Neff is wrapping up a decade of considerable success, growth and innovation. In addition to developing Urban Betty , a successful salon with two locations, Neff also created an app for stylists , produced a book about homes in Austin, Texas, and even reached the Inc. 5000 list twice! . What drives you? What’s next?

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 29, 2012

Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. Here are just a few suggestions: 1) Advise first, invest later. Angel investing is part lifestyle, part asset allocation. Before you start writing checks, just spend some time with startups.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2013

Anyone who reads this blog frequently will know that I am a big believer in low-cost video content and specifically the power of YouTube as a content creation & distribution platform. And this month we announced that Maker Studios, where I am an investor and board member, crossed 3 billion views. hours of TV / day.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 3, 2016

While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros. They offer leadership conferences, regular content articles on leadership, board pack templates and the like.

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Haystack

JANUARY 12, 2020

For those following this blog and the seed market over the past decade, you may have noticed that every year, we see increases across the board — more investors, newer funds, and funds that get larger. Rather, this short blog is filled only with my own observations from being in the middle of the evolving seed market since 2013.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m going to save that for a future blog post. Let me start by saying two things: Events like this are invaluable to startups because the significant value comes from building the network across portfolio companies and the discussion one can have with your peer group. And market your brand, not your personality.

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OurCrowd

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Top investment opportunities Startup of the Week: DayTwo’s precision nutrition combats diabetes, chronic diseases NeuReality raises $35M Series A co-led by OurCrowd Kando to service 22 French municipalities Meeting again, for real OurCrowd meets Great Neck mayor, investors NASA awards ICON $57.2M Sign NDA to Learn More.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

I wrote this conundrum and the need to take charge of how the market define your skills in my much-read blog post on “ personal branding.” For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.”

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Entrepreneurs' Organization

MARCH 23, 2016

She didn’t quit her beliefs, on her family or on the time that she had invested. We’ve simply invested too much time and money, and we begin to forget why we started in the first place. By Georges Levesque. You read that right. I am the son of a nun. To be precise: an ex-nun. Moving on is not quitting. It’s moving on.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 2, 2011

It’s apropos because there is so much noise these days with email, Twitter, Facebook, blogs, web shows, etc. I was thinking back to a few previous “insider baseball&# blog debates that raged for several weeks: AngelGate (aka Bin38 secret cabal), convertible debt vs. equity, bubble vs. not, and now the AngelList discussion.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 25, 2013

“This essay is dedicated to the great VC’s on my board who I am lucky to work with: Sameer Gandhi from Accel, Jeremy Liew from Lightspeed, and Kirsten Green from Forerunner. Most top tier VCs return about 3x invested capital and outlier funds (the best of a vintage) might return 6-8x. But VC is like congress. And yours as well.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2013

Jonathan Strauss took this issue head on in a blog post that I believe every startup founder should read on “ Replacing Oneself as CEO.” I know because I marked the occasion with a blog post on how to have a great VC meeting. ” But lately I’m more swayed by the wise words of Reid Hoffman. It’s your baby.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 12, 2014

But being best-in-class at online marketing is also a sine qua non to standout from your peer group. Yesterday I wrote a post about “ growth hacking ” and why I thought it was wrong that people were hating on the term unnecessarily. It’s worth a quick read. My argument is pretty simple. This will fail.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 4, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 3, 2019

However, in private markets, there is more room to optimize across all 11 steps of the investing process: firm management , marketing, fundraising , origination , manage relationships, due diligence, negotiation, monitoring, portfolio acceleration , reporting, and. The 11 Steps of Investing in Private Companies. 1) Manage the firm .

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 4, 2013

I recommend you read Fred Wilson’s recent blog post about the need for a well articulated business strategy before pushing a particular business model. He then brought her to board meetings so nobody could accuse him of not having a business model. I found myself in violent agreement with Fred’s blog post(s).

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. Through this process he raised $2 million.

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OurCrowd

JUNE 20, 2021

The board of directors includes several senior semiconductor industry executives including Dan Charash who led Provigent to a $360M exit. How To Grow a Hectocorn: Zoom Backer Jim Scheinman on His New Investment. Zoom is now worth $100 billion and Scheinman has seen five of his investments exit as unicorns. Learn More.

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David Teten VC

DECEMBER 12, 2017

As a globally focussed LP in early stage VC funds, we at Blue Future Partners have observed a growing trend of firms investing substantially in software tools, whether developing proprietary solutions or adopting off the shelf tools. But what tools are they using themselves to automate their own processes?

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David Teten VC

MARCH 1, 2022

The easiest way to work with and for VC funds is to become a part-time scout, getting paid for sourcing investments. How to win consulting, board, operating, and investment roles with private equity and venture capital funds (video). Syllabus for how to launch, manage, and invest a VC fund. But how do you do that? .

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Berkonomics

MARCH 23, 2023

We move boarding passes, coupons and more off paper and into the digital world. We collaborate using Zoom, Teams, Salesforce, Yammer, Skype, GoToMeeting, Fuze and hundreds of other tools not available to the last generation of whiteboard, personal meeting or teleconference users. We read increasingly using our digital devices.

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Entrepreneur's Handbook

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

The good news for aspiring VCs is that the investing world is no longer completely dominated by a small, niche circle of investors. Source: DocSend At DocSend , we spend a lot of time analyzing the data behind what it takes for startup founders to market their ideas, land meetings with VCs, and in turn source and close deals?—?from

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