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What’s it Like Being a VC?

Both Sides of the Table

Since I answer this all the time anyway I thought it might make an interesting blog post. And in stead of one set of issues to deal with I get the variety of discussing issues with many teams. We have very small teams – When you’re in your twenties you aspire to manage teams. That’s true. Maybe 10-15%.

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Announcing First Round’s Investment in GroupMe

This is going to be BIG.

Personally, I’m incredibly psyched about the scope of the vision and feel very lucky to be working with such a promising young team. They showed me a very lightweight HTML5 mobile site that enabled you to start a group chat that fell back to just text messages when you logged off the web.

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

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It’s always fun chatting with Jason because he’s knowledgeable about the market, quick on topics and pushes me to talk more about VC / entrepreneur issues. I first discovered it from Dharmesh Shah’s blog OnStartups. Senior exec team is ex-QPass (mobile payments platform sold to Amdocs).

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The @TWTFelipe Story – A Tale of US Visa Policy Gone Awry (#startupvisa)

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I commented briefly on his blog and made a mental note to write a blog post. The one that stuck with me the longest was my chat with TWTFelipe (Felipe Coimbria). They wanted to employ our entire team post acquisition. Tags: Tech Market Analysis. But it turns out I met a bunch of really interesting entrepreneurs.

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This Week in VC with Farb Nivi, Founder of Grockit

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Discussion: Had a long chat about PicClick , a company founded by Ryan Sit in San Diego. I don’t do advertising on my blog, but I thought it was worth mentioning Ryan in particular because he has an alternate model for doing a startup. Features original art and design by professional photography and design team.

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How to Connect with High Volume People

Both Sides of the Table

I have Twitter chats, respond to blog comments, trade emails, respond to comments on This Week in VC. People are often surprised at the small details I sometimes remember from our initial meetings. &# You’re the guy who built the Twitter plug-in for blogs. Tags: Raising Venture Capital Startup Advice.

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21 Ways to Grow Your New Business Online in 2021

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Build a content website or add a blog. Create and add products to a Facebook shop first, connect your Instagram Business account and start tagging! While we used to head to a local networking event and chat with strangers over wine and cheese, nowadays it all happens online in groups, direct messages and comment threads.