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Please Help Me Congratulate Jordan Hudson as @UpfrontVC’s Newest Investment Principal

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Have really strong analytic skills to put large amounts of information into context. Ability to source information easily to help build a thesis around companies / industries / competition. Even though my wife thinks my true mental age is still around 13, sadly I am not in this youth demo. Startup Advice'

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The biggest moonshots from 500 Global’s latest Demo Day

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It’s demo day season. This morning marked the kickoff of VC firm 500 Global’s Fall 2022 Demo Day, which saw over a dozen startups give their best pitches to prospective investors — and customers. Both outfits look to back early-stage founders with money and advice in exchange for equity.

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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

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Don’t even get me started on Demo Days. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now. And why my advice to newer VCs would be not to feel bad if you’re missing out on what is perceived as a few hot deals. I guess if you’re in high-volume, low-differentiation mode perhaps this is efficient for you.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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The presenter comes out of the meeting proud at having gotten through all 30 slides (and maybe even a demo) with a bunch of smiling faces and nodding heads and no discussion. The advice I gave to my sales execs is the same advice I would give to you: smiling, nodding heads are normally not a great sign.

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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

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As a founder you end up having to deal with a lot of sensitive information & discussions. I refuse to go to demo days. Not just TechStars but any demo day, really. So I promised the guys that I would come and hang out with companies well before their demo days. It’s an obvious temptation. We’ll see.

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How do I Really Feel About Anonymous Apps Like Secret?

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When you buy tickets from somebody on StubHub or products on eBay you likely don’t know the seller but you can get information on them about their reputation by past people who have bought from them. It wasn’t because I’m the target demo for that app – I am certainly not. But again, context is everything.

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Revisiting Paul Graham’s “High Resolution” Financing

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if you need advice on how to find / work with startup lawyers cheaply click that link). If you take money 180 days later then those investors get more information about how you’re performing and therefore face less risk. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice Tech Market Analysis Term Sheets.

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