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Startup Founders Should Flip Burgers

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This is part of my ongoing series Startup Advice. million which closed the first week of March 2000 – a week before the market crashed. Quick aside: how can VC’s invest in online businesses, digital media, social networks or mobile applications if they don’t actually use the products actively themselves?

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GRP Announces $200 Million Fund. Rebrands as Upfront Ventures

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We have previously raised funds in 1996 ($200 million), 2000 ($400 million) and 2008/9 ($200 million). Like many modern VCs, we’re committed to investing in the community and in our portfolio companies. Startup Advice' Let’s start with the fund. This month we closed our 4th fund of $200 million.

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How Do You Reference Check a VC?

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So my first advice is not to rush in the fund raising process. In fact, they will think better of you because you’re demonstrating that you’re the kind of thorough person that they wanted to invest money into in the first place. Don’t take my advice, take Eric Clapton’s. Not so in venture capital.

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Time is the Enemy of All Deals

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We moved into the legal process and final due diligence in January and February of 2000. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000. If it’s a biz deal you might care about IP protection, revenue share, investment commitments to joint marketing – whatever. Our final closure was the first week of March 2000.

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The Screwy Logic of Crowdfunding and Venture Fund Regulation

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In fact, thanks to increased scrutiny of investment funds in a post-Madoff world, this imbalance will probably get bigger and bigger. But crowdfunding investments in startups is the answer to all our worries in life, right? If venture funds could be supported by the local communities they invest in, you'd create a fantastic dynamic.

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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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This is part of my ongoing series “ Start Up Advice &# but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.&#. We could do more in 2010 with more VC investment; the doubling assumes only ratable increase in marketing spend to achieve profitability. It’s that simple. >50% of our revenue in now viral.

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Want to know why charging $12 / year converts higher than $9.99?

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<Small plug> – I invested in an awesome company called … awe.sm … that is a performance tracking tool that let’s you measure efficacy of channels like this (email, facebook, twitter, linkedin, etc.) They never did any PR or marketing to get their videos to first get shown on the news during the 2000 election.

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