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

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By definition, you read blogs. If you care about accessing customers, reaching an audience, communicating your vision, influencing people in your industry, marketing your services or just plain engaging in a dialog with others in your industry a blog is a great way to achieve this. People often ask me why I started blogging.

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This Week in Venture Capital – Episode 3

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Finally, a lot of people asking me about typos on my blog. Investors: Foundation Capital (lead), with existing investors: Morgenthaler Ventures, Norwest Venture Partners, Canaan Partners. Blogging has gone through many iterations. I use Wordpress for this blog and it’s great. 14.7mm in Series D.

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How Boards Need to Evolve Over Time

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I’ve written a few posts about boards recently as part of a series on the subject. I admit that I haven’t yet read it but I’ve had numerous discussions with Brad over the years about board structure & conduct and consider him a mentor on the topic. Offering a sparring-partner function on strategic decisions.

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A framework to think about pricing seed, angel, and venture capital rounds

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Sometimes, this also relates to capital requirements of what the team needs. For web development, usually it's pretty much the same across the board, but if you're making jewelry in China, it's going to be hard to get much done with a 500k seed round. Note that, to even get venture in the first place, you are special.

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Entrepreneur’s Don’t Think Enough. Here’s What You Can Do About It …

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Board Meetings. Frankly, I think venture capital is that way, too. How do VCs break out of group think when they are shuttling from one board meeting to the next, from one conference to the other and talking with all the same people? How does the world in Los Angeles intersect differently with venture capital?

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But notably you had the following changes: Horizontally scalable computing & storage systems, which meant you required less capital up front for hardware. I’ve blogged about this before and provide a lot more details in these posts: 1. Venture Capital.

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11 Quick Tips to Get More Value out of Your Board

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Many board meetings are bored meetings. This is a shame since the value that the right board could add is immense if you select the right board members and manage them effectively. This is a shame since the value that the right board could add is immense if you select the right board members and manage them effectively.

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