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Some Career Advice for Aspiring Tech CEOs

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For some aspiring to be tech entrepreneurs, I often suggest a two-step process, as I argued in this post that “ The First Startup Founder You Need to Invest in Is You.” But I also have advice for the 15% that really do want to be a startup CEO. At Upfront we invested in such a company. ” (Warren Buffett).

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On Bubbles … And Why We’ll Be Just Fine

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I know that most people who are close to them tend to deny their existence, as we saw in the great housing bubble of 2002-2007 and the dot com bubble of 1997-2000. million pre-money valuation is now raising $1 million at a $12 million valuation the next investor has nowhere to go but up (or sit out the investment). source: Capital IQ.

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Why You Should Make Your Competitors Your Frenemies

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We don’t want to be the person who invested in your company only to find out later there was a much better team and/or product in the market. Or that we’ve invested in a company where there is no market demand. We’re all basically trying to validate the same thing in looking for competition.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

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It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. I learned this lesson long ago – many investors wait until you’re staring at a cliff before committing whether to re-invest in you. We control our hours, our travel and our investment areas. I had to go there? Let me explain.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

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The Past (1985-2002). Next began the era of “spam-based&# networks of which Plaxo (founded in 2002) was the king. We are also seeing the growth of social networks around topics of interest like StockTwits for people interested in investing in the stock market. Social Networks: Past, Present & Future. The Present Era.

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How Reed Hastings’ Facebook Status Update Landed Netflix in SEC’s Crosshairs

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When it goes public, a company must adopt a raft of policies and measures designed to comply with insider trading rules and tightly control disclosure of financial and other material non-public information that, if disclosed, could significantly alter the total mix of information available to those making investment decisions.

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Meet Benchmark’s New Partner: Eric Vishria

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After graduating from Stanford in mathematical and computer science when he was just 19, Eric joined the newly-formed enterprise software company Loudcloud (which became Opsware in 2002). We believe that successful early-stage venture investing is just that: a craft. He stayed briefly at HP as a vice president.

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