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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

The first three skills I espoused were: access to the highest-quality deal-flow, domain knowledge of the topic area in which you’re investing and access to VCs to help fund the next stages of development. This is the same with angel investing. Either of these are obviously fine in angel deals. the diversity problem.

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MAY 15, 2010

We spoke about the changes to an “accredited investor&# proposed by Chris Dodd – This would be bad for angel investing. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Criteo was founded in 2005 in France; now based in Palo Alto, CA. Tags: Start-up Advice. We spoke briefly about why.

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MAY 5, 2011

I was meeting with a first-time CEO of a very promising young startup recently and offering my advice on what his priorities should be. I gave him the same advice I give nearly all over-worked, control-freak, do-everything-yourself startup founders: “Your number one priority isn’t any of these things. No Dave S. =

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