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Spend 2012 on the Right Side of the Haimish Line

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The first day of 2012 seems the perfect day to do so. Well, I get nothing out of seeing how well a bunch of people can pitch their businesses on stage. So in 2012 you’ll see me a lot more often at the Launchpad LA offices. Happy 2012 to all of you. We’ll see. TechStars Interactions. Yet I love TechStars.

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Upfront Ventures Raised New $280 Million Fund

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Our last fund we raised was in 2012 and we began investing it in April of 2012. Our 3rd fund began investing in March 2009 (raised in 2008) and our 4th fund started in April 2012 so this fund will naturally begin investing around March / April 2015. VCs need to go to 20 cities and pitch one firm in each location!”

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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” The ultimate measure of success for a journalist is viewership so if nobody cares about your shitty little company and the story you’re trying to pitch then the journalist doesn’t want to publish. We provide strategic advice to digital media companies in a manner that reflects how corporate development is actually done.

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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. No more founder pitch meetings. Sometime in the next few weeks, I’ll complete my next investment. It will also be my last venture capital deal. No new investments.

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Do Less. More.

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There are too many pulls & tugs at our elbows for time, for coffee meetings, for advice or speaking engagements or cocktail parties or dinners. My general advice is to do less. I offer the same advice for many of my friends who are newer VCs. The best of the best in our industry are feeling it, too. Easier said than done.

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Gust Blog - Thoughts on startups by investors that fund them

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June 19th, 2012. June 17th, 2012. Power Pitches. If you’re doing investment pitches, you should read this book. If you’re doing a pitch I’m going to see, I want you to have read this book. June 13th, 2012. June 10th, 2012. It seems like good advice to me. June 5th, 2012.

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What Future for Accelerators?

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You can see Zach James & Rich Raddon who are standing next to a demo table pitching a small, yet-to-be-funded company called MovieClips – now the powerhouse ZEFR. Throughout 2012 & 2013 we funded many companies and then pulled together a second fund. It’s where their passions are, too.