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The Thin Skin of the Venture Capital Market

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The fact is, it''s just not cool to criticize the investing side of the venture capital market. I think it sucks that we are in a media culture where we''re supposed to give everyone pats on the head for entrepreneurship when there are legitimate criticisms to be had about the high profile investments we read about all the time.

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Female Founders: What the numbers mean and what they don't

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It also doesn''t take into consideration many important factors: One, venture backed companies are a tiny hiccup in the grand scheme of entrepreneurship. Most companies don''t ever raise venture capital and they do just fine. I scratch my head over why raising venture is put on such a podium.

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Canned: My new response to blogger pitches.

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I'm not a journalist by trade so I'm really not an appropriate person to pitch in such an automated way. To deal with these pitches, I just created a Gmail canned response: "Hi, this is a canned response in response to your canned pitch. I'm not, however, the appropriate person to send a "blogger pitch" to.

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Presenting the Perfect Pitch Deck that Secures Startup Investment

American Entrepreneurship

Marc Andreessen, co-founder of Andreessen Horowitz, a leading venture capital firm, says, “The thing that gets me most excited is the founder whos obsessed with solving a problem that matters, and is determined to keep going no matter what.” The keyword is compelling.

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The Veteran Fund Announces Oversubscribed Fund and $100K Competition Winner

American Entrepreneurship

Miliary veterans possess attributes, experience, and skills that can be well-applied to entrepreneurship through leadership and knowledge of technology. Recognizing this, The Veteran Fund announced the winner of its $100,000 Veteran Pitch Competition and the recent closing of its inaugural oversubscribed investment Fund I.

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Why Aren’t There More Female Entrepreneurs?

Both Sides of the Table

And when asked about the topic, I definitely don’t shy away from the topic as you can see in this 8-minute YouTube interview that Pemo Theodore asked me to do on the subject of Women in Entrepreneurship. My guess is that probably only 2-3 out of every hundred pitches I receive are from women. Please watch this. Even at 18.

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Hacking Innovation Education in New York

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Not only that, there’s a hugely disproportionate amount of time spent on pitching for money for these paper ideas. Step #2: Pitch investors. Where are all the heads of entrepreneurship education and why aren’t they out there participating both online and offline in things that startups are going to? break the silos!

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