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Pomp and Reality: Real advice for today’s graduates

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David Foster Wallace, Kenyon College, 2005. In 2005, the famous American author and professor gave a speech entitled “This Is Water,” that has since become legendary. Steve Jobs, Stanford, 2005. The post Pomp and Reality: Real advice for today’s graduates appeared first on. It’s an epidemic.”. Watch | Transcript.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

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To put that timeframe in perspective, here’s a picture of analyst me taken at USV’s first office in 2005, dressed in khakis and a button-down shirt versus a picture of me, a GP at my own firm, over 100 deals later, now on my latest Zoom board call from my couch at home with my junior analyst of about a year and a half.

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11 angel investing lessons

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Incentives make for bad investing advice. Valuations for pre-traction companies between 2005-2010 were $1-5M pre-money for the first non-friends-and-family round. Incentives make for bad investing advice. Incentives influence the advice you get from VCs, lawyers, incubators, and everybody else. Back $0B companies.

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Exploring the many faces of sidewalk delivery robots with Cartken’s Anjali Jindal Naik

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When she graduated from university, Naik’s father gave her some advice: Start your own business; don’t work for somebody else. Back in 2005, that meant working on ringtones for mobile phones, and even trying, and failing, to stream Indian concerts to mobile phones in the U.S.

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Turns at Albuquerque: How I Measure My Career

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Ten years ago, in 2005, I started working for Union Square Ventures as their first analyst. I reiterated the notion of risk taking when giving career advice the other day and how when I joined Union Square Ventures, it wasn''t the USV it was now. Twenty years ago, I got my first job. Barely anyone had ever heard of them.

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Sleek secures $14M Series A to enhance its corporate service platform

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based incorporation management company that has incorporated more than 450,000 companies since its foundation in 2005. As it enters the U.K. market, Sleek has also announced the acquisition of Ltd Companies , the U.K.-based Sleek will add its stack to the existing Ltd Companies offering to build an operating system for U.K.-based based SMEs.

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Not Taking Risks Is the Riskiest Career Move of All

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There are times in life when playing it safe is good advice—like wearing a seatbelt, for example, or looking both ways before crossing the street. A former professional athlete, Nagtegaal speed-skated with the North Holland Region/Utrecht KNSB from 2005 to 2008. Due Diligence vs. Self-Doubt.