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Is it a Good Idea to Have Ads in Tweets?

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so compelling (other than the fact that the CEO Sean Rad is a great young technology leader and his advisers – Brian Norgard , Dan Gould and Evan Rifkin - are some of the guys I respect most in the LA tech market.). was the 2-way web. My firm was an early investor in Overture (then called GoTo.com) who created this category.

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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. I often tell people that in some ways it’s easier to build great companies in down markets.

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Raising $$ on AngelList? Working w/ McClure? Ask Jody Sherman

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Through this process he raised $2 million. When I described to people why I initially invested my calls went something like this, “He’s taken kicks to the face for nearly 2 years and is still standing. Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice.

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When VCs Play Defense

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The frantic pace of technology cycles, the amount of tech news, the blogs, the conferences, the demo days, the announcements, the fundings, the IPOs. Any longtime readers of this blog will know that I often try to simplify complex ideas into a simple parable that is easier to remember to set the tone of one’s behaviors.

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How the Seed-Stage VC Trend Began, The Downsides of Unicorns & Much More

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I began asking around who the likely investors were for such a market. If you want to understand the software trend that drove the creation of the seed-stage VC phenomenon I wrote about it that linked blog post but in short: cloud computing drove down the cost to create startups enabling a new category of investor.

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Why Email May Be Draining Your Company’s Productivity

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If I have an event in the evening or am traveling for work then I can easily get through 2 days without sending any non-essential email. You’re writing a freaking blog post! I try to bucket my tasks into major categories and spend some time doing each of them. Plus, he’s a loyal reader of this blog.

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The business model of the future

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As an example: There are now 175 mattress companies in the market. Second, interaction field companies build a network of interactions, an architecture and governance rules in such as way that enables an entire industry or several industries to solve multiple consumer problems, industry or category problems and societal problems.