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Some Reflections on VC Investment Decisions

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Of course these are great places to network with other investors, meet great entrepreneurs and keep your connections strong with senior execs at larger companies like Yahoo! The ones above are the ones I’ve prioritized this year (other than Disrupt – I never seem to get invited to that one). And there’s conferences.

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Advertising Wants to be Measurable – An Investment Thesis

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I sometimes refer to this field as “intent-based advertising&# because the reason it has been so successful is that the person who typed in the search term has expressed an “intent&# to find information on that category. I believe that many social networks confused this idea. Not necessarily in the shopping mindset.

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Why Entrepreneurs & VCs Should Focus on Basecamp, Not the Summit

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Equally, I encouraged entrepreneurs to thoroughly reference check their VCs – you’ll learn much more from this than anything else. We always say that great opportunities are composed of a world-class team addressing a big & disruptive market opportunity. Lines vs. Dots is all about people. Market Opportunity.

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Spotting, Nurturing and Mentoring Talent – The Power of Troy Carter

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Influencers are inundated with requests for their time and have to develop filters of whom they trust and therefore who can refer them deals. She was disruptive. The need to have well-defined networks of people you trust for introductions (he talks about Shervin Pishevar, who is also a friend of mine).

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This Post Has Nothing to do with #SXSW

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I’ve been to many of the TechCrunch 50, Disrupt and many similar events over the years. Potential customers always prefer to talk to existing reference customers than to talk to just your sales reps. That way you’re all extending your networks and splitting the costs. Consider staying out late, sleeping in.

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At Last – An Asset Class Achieving High Ownership at Low Cost

Angel Capital Association

By: Nick Zasowski, Director at Global Startup Studio Network Startup studios are gaining steam across the angel investing landscape. As the Global Startup Studio Network (GSSN) researched last year, the early signs of studio data are just the beginning for the growing expectations. For today, we’ll refer to them simply as “studios.”

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Sales Best Practices vs. Intuition in Startups

StartupNation

This tendency is exaggerated when the new offering is disruptive or innovative. If the offering is truly innovative and/or disruptive, this first step is even more vital. This too is a bit more difficult if the offering is viewed by the prospect as innovative and/or disruptive. Dig past their reassurances.

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