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Strategic Casting: How to Fish For Your Ideal Clients and Employees

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Lay the groundwork before the event and apply to become a speaker or invest in a tradeshow booth. Without the right people in the right seats who live by your core values and culture, you won’t be able to deliver to your ideal client. I’ll say it again for emphasis: Ideal employees must live by the company’s core values and culture.

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Rustic Canyon Speaks out on GaiKai Exit, Changing Nature of VC, LA Tech & More

Both Sides of the Table

And no wonder, lately he and his partners are on a tear, investing out of their $200+ million VC fund. They recently exited their investment in Gaikai for $380 million while their rival OnLive (who had raised > $200 million) just went through bankruptcy. I’ve laid out my policy on seed investing pretty clearly and publicly.

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Lessons for Brooklyn: Information Spillover at the Roots of NYC Tech

This is going to be BIG.

Talk of buildings and incubators reminded me of the story of Building 20 from "Where Good Ideas Come From". ".Legendary The "meetup" culture of NYC, where there are three great educational events to go to every night is how the community bootstrapped itself. But sometimes you need to move a wall.". Information spillover.

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AI startup Fractal becomes unicorn with $360 million investment from TPG

TechCrunch

TPG invested in the startup through its TPG Capital Asia, its Asia-focused private equity platform. helps firms improve investment decisions, Eugenie.ai Fractal also incubates and invests in AI projects, he explained. A typical customer of Fractal generates at least $10 billion in revenue.)

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9 Women Can’t Make a Baby in a Month

Both Sides of the Table

It’s the whole basis of my investment philosophy, which I call “ The Entrepreneur Thesis.&#. And it seems to be creeping back into startup culture of late in a worrying way. Nobody really knows whether or not the idea is yet going to be big, so I believe in not over capitalizing too early. It takes options off of the table.

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Don't ask "Why Brooklyn?" Ask "How?"

This is going to be BIG.

Even if it was true, you're not *that* far away from lots of capital who will be willing to invest in you. RRE, for example, has invested in three of the borough's best companies: MakerBot, Pontiflex, and HowAboutWe. 2) The NYC startup community has been fueled, in many ways, by it's Meetup culture.

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Are MBAs Necessary for Start-ups or VC?

Both Sides of the Table

We had more than 700 resumes, short-listed 65, interviewed 16 in one-hour meetings had 6 full-day interviews including a presentation by the candidate on a selected market opportunity and we did 3 finalist dinners to test cultural fit. I tell people regularly that I only invest in companies where the DNA is software. So back to MBAs.

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