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The Agile Board

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I recently wrote an article on how to respond to board members between meetings. If I were to re-write the original post I would have taken out the section on “how to get better intro’s from VC’s&# and made it it’s own post. It seems to me this is the main problem with boards. It’s true.

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The Double Standard of Female CEOs Moving Fast and Breaking Things

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Even after Fowler’s article came to the forefront and investors Freada and Mitch Kapor broke ranks with their silent co-investors in their now-famous open letter , things didn’t get better. Investors let him control the board as long as he continued to make them paper rich, and then actually rich--so they couldn’t technically force him out.

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Is @AngelList Syndicates Really Such a Big Deal?

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” From the hyperbolic Jason Calacanis weighing in that “The petty VC’s did everything to deride [Naval, the co-founder of AngelList]” as though the industry was collectively s g its pants that AngelList was going to put us out of business. This is the same way VC firms, by the way. Bowery Capital).

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Want to Know How VC’s Calculate Valuation Differently from Founders?

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I just want to figure out what a fair valuation is.&# I figured all the VC’s talked so we should. I’m not sure I really even need to write this at length because Nivi absolutely nailed the topic in his article “ The Option Pool Shuffle.&#. But this example above is all entrepreneur math, not the VC’s.

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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And now for something a little different: First Round portfolio company chloe + isabel launches [#frc]

This is going to be BIG.

Yet, I wondered whether or not she had accidently met with the wrong VC. Like good ducks, you might not have heard a lot of noise from them (until now-- check out this awesome NextWeb article ), but they've been paddling like the dickens underneath. She saw the sneakers, right? The duck analogy is quickly becoming a favorite of mine.).

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. They’re mine because I’m a VC.

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