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

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Last week, there was a Business Insider article measuring the percent of female founded companies that NYC seed funds invest in. Take the most widely used number--that way fewer women are getting venture funding than guys. Why so many mixed teams? Brooklyn Bridge Ventures came in first, with a whopping 61%.

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How VC Fundraising Favors White Men

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This will be the post where I dangerously attempt to walk the minefield of a white male VC opining on the topic. Clearly he assumed that he was using some kind of username, and that it was a gang reference of some sort--like, "Young Blood" as in the bloods and the crips or something to that affect. Do they have a Code of Conduct?

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Do VC Platforms Make Sense?

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In the VC insider baseball world a discussion has gone on about “VC platforms” over the past 5 or so years. While firms define platforms differently, let’s just say they are the services that a VC offers outside of investment capital and partner time on boards or providing intros.

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Why Your Marketing Campaign Sucks

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This article originally appeared on TechCrunch. I am a VC. But through expressing points-of-view I can raise above the consciousness of my customers (entrepreneurs and limited partners who invest in VC funds) in ways that I couldn’t without breaking through the noise of the hundreds of others of VCs who also have money.

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Why Startups Need to Blog (and what to talk about …)

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But should you actually write one if you’re a startup, an industry figure (lawyer, banker) or VC? Within 2 years I was getting 400,000 views / month and had been voted the 2nd most respected VC in the country by an independent survey of entrepreneurs, The Funded and sentiment analysis. They’re mine because I’m a VC.

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A tale of two cities: Bewildered by the city government's continued cluelessness on NYC's innovation scene

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On the heels of ReadWriteWeb's glowing article about the NYC tech startup scene and Open Angel Forum coming to NYC , Ms. Your VC will now be your real estate agent and your hosting provider? Last month they closed up shop and sold their technology to Amazon, who will be using it in. Let someone else build the chips.

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Should You Blog? (yes, and here’s how …)

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I have a very detailed article that covers stuff I won’t cover in detail in this post. But if you like this topic please consider reading the Mashable article. I use Wordpress and am very happy. In this genre there is also Typepad although I find less people using it these days. Now I’m a VC.

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