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If You Don’t Have a Discrete Hypothesis You Are Incapable of Failing

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I find myself nodding – even when the topic is one I don’t expect to agree with such as “fail fast.” There are very few people in Silicon Valley who have such a precise grasp on what defines success of early-stage startup companies than Eric Ries. ” This week was no exception.

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Things Will Be Different

This is going to be BIG.

It was a shared moment in time where nothing needed to be said, and all we could muster was a slight nod to acknowledge that what you were feeling, everyone else was feeling, too. I remember looking at other people on the street the day after 9/11. Everyone was just so sad. It felt like things would never be the same.

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The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales

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The presenter comes out of the meeting proud at having gotten through all 30 slides (and maybe even a demo) with a bunch of smiling faces and nodding heads and no discussion. The advice I gave to my sales execs is the same advice I would give to you: smiling, nodding heads are normally not a great sign.

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What Would it Look Like if Elon Musk Pitched a VC Today?

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And when asked who has inspired him he of course gave a nod to Nikola Tesla. I think the zeitgeist in the room was that we were seeing the successor to Steve Jobs in terms of inspiring us to think big. This made my friend Dorrian Porter ‘s KickStarter initiative to create a statue of Tesla in Silicon Valley even more poignant.

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A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

” And I nodded affirmatively. And I observed that the rapid pace of venture investing and decision making has not, yet, impacted the quality of our portfolio and that it may have actually improved it. The woman I was talking to said “like Malcolm Gladwell describes in Blink.”

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Trello versus Asana

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And when I read his well-thought-through descriptions of the pro’s / con’s I found myself nodding a lot. Trello is the perfect tool for the team and individual team members. I think I’m going to stick with Trello for now and keep an eye on the UI evolution of Asana.

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How Many Angels is the Right Amount for a Startup to Have?

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” I found myself nodding through all of it with quotes like, “Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley,” said Sam Altman. If you follow the Twittersphere you may have noticed several people weighing in on this recent piece by Mike Isaac of the NY Times, asking “ How Many Angels is Too Many?

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