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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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And in January I saw that digital music overtook physical media for the first time in 2011, something I expected since 1998. Here’s Why on his Both Sides of the Table blog for a good read and a good lesson. It seems like good advice to me. Subscribe to the Gust Blog. Subscribe by email. Invested Interests. I like that.

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The Harder I Work, The Luckier I Get

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That’s how it felt then and a bit how it feels in May 2011. years ago you’d remember RIP Good Times from Sequoia, which still strikes me as having been prudent advice in late 2008. I was thinking about all of this as I looked at the logs from my WordPress blog this evening. I started blogging 2 years ago.

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

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I obviously don’t have a crystal ball so the economy could fare better than my gut, but here’s why I’m cautious for some time in 2010 or early 2011: Why is the future still so unpredictable? So if I am unnecessarily concerned in this blog post (great!) My advice in my post Should You Even Raise VC still holds.

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Why You Should Put Yourself Out There and Try New Products

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In 2008 I started VC blogging. I had blogged when I was an entrepreneur. Ironic to be self-centered while you’re trying to offer advice to others. In 2011 I started using Instagram. In 2007 I started using Twitter and most of my friends & colleagues wondered why people would care what I ate for lunch.

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

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Those of us that are willing to admit that we fawked things up in the first dot-com explosion and learned from our mistakes have the battle wounds to make more pragmatic decisions in 2011. I loved the quote so much I wrote an entire blog post on the topic.

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Why John Frankel Leaned in Early on Klout and Cornerstone OnDemand and What He Sees Next

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I had been trading emails & Tweets with venture capitalist John Frankel and we were to meet in person in March 2011 at SxSW to talk about Klout and other investments he had made. Other people were convinced including Kleiner Perkins who lead their $30 million fund raising in 2012 (they had previously also invested in 2011).

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Going to Raise VC? Here’s a Primer on Process, People, Deck

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All of this is covered in more detail on the TWiVC video above (and much of it is covered in text on this blog on the “ Raising VC &# tab). Do you really still need a Powerpoint deck in 2011? A summary of what we discussed is below: Not 100% in order of the video, but close. Will a VC sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement)?

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