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How DogVacay Literally Saved my Thanksgiving

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I said, “This category is going to be huge. Like most markets online it will likely be a ‘winner take most’ category so if you’re going to go for it … you better be prepared to win.” The photo in this blog (like many of mine) came from 500px. I’m sure of the value. And thank you.

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My Investment in Hungryroot: A Tasty Lesson in Products vs. Services

This is going to be BIG.

Hungryroot is going after that category--the packaged food category, with a product that takes about 7 minutes from package to mouth. I first met Ben on January 29th, 2011 at an SLP mentoring session. All you need is a pan and some olive oil. He was working on Village Vines, which became Savored.

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How to Find a Job as a VC Scout: Compensation and Which Firms Are Recruiting

David Teten VC

We found these by looking through firms’ websites, social media , blog posts, etc. Dr. Joel Palathinkal , CEO of Sutton Capital , observes that scouts usually fall into one of three categories: . Clearvision Ventures is a venture capital firm that helps other entrepreneurs build category leading companies. Clearvision Ventures.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

We list here all of the active Flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: revenue-based; compensation-based; and blended return streams. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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Flexible VCs With Structures Between Equity and Revenue-Based Investing

David Teten VC

We list here all of the active Flexible VCs we have identified, broken into these categories: revenue-based; compensation-based; and blended return streams. They share their learnings on Flexible VC and pioneering rural startup ecosystems on the GCVF blog. More on Reformation and their insights can be found on their Medium blog.

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What I’ve Learned from Fred Wilson

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My goal in the interview overall was to capture more of the personal side of Fred since so much of his investment thesis and portfolio work already comes out in his blog. Fred has of course been a public mentor to us all with his market-defining terminology that he popularized including “freemium” and “mobile first.”

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Do Less. More.

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There’s too much PR and too many tech blogs and too many newsletters and aggregators and Twitter summarizers to even try to catch everything that’s going on and equally there’s so much noise that it becomes harder to be heard. Have a shorter to-do list with more things that are in the “done” category.

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