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What are the most valuable recommendations in order to raise money from VCs connected via Gust?

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With that background, here are 30 tips to help you make the most of Gust: Subscribe to the Gust Blog , and go back and read the past posts. As such, the competition from an entrepreneur’s standpoint is very, very tough. VCs therefore use whatever heuristics they can in order to triage the deal flow.

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Challenges With The Lean Startup Methodology

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I still remember reading Eric Ries’ blog post that first coined the term “Lean Startup” in September 2008. But despite following Lean Methodology to the letter, garnering glowing press reviews, and growing to over 100,000 users, we still ultimately failed to find product/market fit.

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How to Connect on Social Networks

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Usually it’s because your conversations steam looks interesting, your link goes to an interesting blog or website or you work at a company that interests me. On Facebook there isn’t even a standard “join my network&# introduction. But then people’s actions tell me otherwise. I’m curious who you are.

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

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Because my wife is a superstar she published them all on a blog here along with much other wonderful type-A mom advice. He had just written another one of his way-over-the-top blog posts. I think Dave has blogging Tourettes Syndrome when he hears the word VC. Through this process he raised $2 million. It worked like a charm.

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Newsletter: Oprah’s smart oven + Kim Kardashian’s taste

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New York State to hand out 800+ ElliQ robots to elderly Kim Kardashian gives Beyond Meat a bounce Taranis gives farmers a down-to-earth view of crops from above Israel plans to invest $180M to develop civilian space tech Arcadia acquires world’s largest utility data provider, raises $200M Introductions More than 4,200 high-tech jobs.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. When I met my now-wife, I realized that any technology that can find me a spouse is a killer app. Most of us want one spouse and we’re done.

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Venture capitalists eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten VC

(To see the video above, please click the image, and then click on the Play button.). Private equity and venture capital investors are copying our sisters in the hedge fund world: we’re trying to automate more of our job. . When I was single, I registered for (a lot of) dating websites. That’s why 40 million Americans use online dating sites.