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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and they took over my blog as an asset in the sale of the company. My blog was wiped out.

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Travel app Hopper raises $96M from Capital One to double down on social commerce

TechCrunch

” The company’s web-crawling tech ingested blogs, photo-sharing sites and other sources of information about locales and tagged them to a geolocation in a massive place database. On the consumer side, this spring, Hopper shifted its focus to in-app promotions, discounts and sales events.

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Quick Hack to Make Your Boss (and you) More Productive

Both Sides of the Table

Here's the kicker - 40% of the time, the person did not resume the task they were working on before the interruption. This comment and blog post prompted me to write a post that has been in my queue for a long time. Tags: Startup Advice. Sounds like a day at most offices. Chances are they'll love you for it.

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Zendesk vs. Zoho Desk: Which is best? [2023]

The Zapier Blog

She can intelligently tag customer tickets with related keywords, fetch relevant information from your knowledge base to answer a user's question, notify you of strange ticket responses, and even perform sentiment analysis (essentially poking your shoulder and saying, "Hey human, I think the customer is mad").

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The Toxic Nature of Email

Both Sides of the Table

I haven’t written a blog post in a week. And for the last few evenings I decided to get through email rather than blog. It was interesting for me to read Fred Wilson’s email bankruptcy blog post this morning. 10 x 10 minutes = 1 hour, 40 minutes of “big effort&# email. Blog comments.

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Where to Start if You're Curious about Macroeconomics Today

Tomasz Tunguz

I remember growing up reading that a Coca-Cola cost five cents, and seeing the old New Yorker magazine covers with a price tag of 15 cents, and awing over the price of a Ford Model T of $850. But it’s well worth reading because it’s an economics history course condensed into a blog post. and $28,940 (for a Ford F150).

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

Both Sides of the Table

I had several term sheets and one of the leading term sheets had an option pool of 40% in it. Tags: Startup Advice This Week in Venture Capital. When I went to raise money in 2006 I thought I knew every term in a term sheet but somehow I still got a bit duped by the option pool shuffle. 4 * $4 million) and not $4 million.

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