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You Need to Win the Battle for Share of Mind

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This article first appeared on TechCrunch. So as I get around the country speaking at college campus in 2010 & 2011 I have been preaching the same theme. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the proliferation of starutps in the past 2 years. It seems almost incomprehensible that only 2.5 But what does this all mean?

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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This article was originally published on TechCrunch. The full articles are linked below. 2010 was the year of the “super angel&# and 2011 has to date been the year of unbelievably highly priced B,C & D rounds of venture capital. August 2011. Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I acknowledged this in the article. I said both in the article but felt compelled to provide a statement up front for the skimmers. 2007, 2011) and for the hottest of companies and in bad markets for fund raising (2003, 2008) prices test the bottom end of the range.

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US Economic Risks (Sept 2010): Impact on Investors & Entrepreneurs

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Otherwise, grab a cup ‘o coffee … Clicking on any graph below will take you to that article. While he is publicly saying that he expects a modestly improved economy in 2011 , it’s hard to be too sanguine when you look at the data.

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Angel Investing: Skill 3 – Relationships with VCs

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This is the third article in a series on what it takes to be a great angel investor (and why this should matter to entrepreneurs). If 2011 & 2012 look like 2010 then the current crop of angel investments will look great. Part 1 – Access to Great Deal Flow – is here. So where are we now? It’s hard to say.

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

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I myself coined the term ENIFA (everyone now is a f **g angel) in 2011 but it didn’t stick as well as the term Unicorn did. In fact, the article was so spot on, so well shaped and formed I was only left wondering three things: 1. I was trying to cheekily suggest that it was the new status symbol. ” Uhhuh.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

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3/15/2011 – All in on Facebook, “Your Trusted Social Media Marketing Company” Social Media Platform. 7/19/2011 – Same page, but Wayback Machine stops crawling pages. 8/15/2011 – The day that Buddy Media became a software company? 8/31/2010 – Same thing.

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