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NOVEMBER 8, 2011
We have significant VC commitments (listed below) – every entering company will get $50,000 in funding, mentorship from top VCs and successful entrepreneurs plus free office space. To provide an opportunity for VCs and senior executives to engage with the community by giving back rather than just attending more cocktail parties.
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SEPTEMBER 8, 2009
I came across this blog post about getting a computer science degree as the best degree for getting into venture capital or working at a VC-backed start up. I just completed an exercise where I went out to hire a new associate for my VC firm, GRP Partners. I had to laugh a bit reading it. I installed Windows 3.1
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JANUARY 22, 2014
Picking a VC is hard. So I thought I’d write about out with what I would look for in a VC knowing what I know now and why. Most VCs are book smart. VCs should be more of a coach than proscriptively telling you what to do. You want a VC who will spar with you but then STFU and let you get on with things.
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JULY 1, 2010
He’s personally led more than 50 financing rounds. Incubated by Clearstone Ventures in 2008. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance. But the most interesting is that all of his stories involved entrepreneurship. In fact, he’s personally started 34 businesses and run 17 of them.
Gust
JULY 8, 2012
A while back I heard a talk by Dave McClure, a long-time angel investor, who also proclaims to be one of the “new breed” of venture capitalists in Silicon Valley, as CEO of 500Startups , which is either a micro-VC seed fund, or a startup incubator, or both. For VCs, early-stage means customer revenue is less than $10M.
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MAY 23, 2012
I can’t help feel a bit of rear-view mirror analysis in all of “VC model is broken” bears in our industry. This has led to the creation of incubators, accelerators and seed funds. What the explosion in startups really means for our industry is a much bigger pipeline of potential deals if we VC’s can be patient. The Exit Problem.
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MARCH 11, 2011
All of that are in this week’s episode of This Week in VC. Don’t think about starting an incubator until you have real operating experience otherwise you don’t really have anything to offer startups. It also is how they financed their entry into the United Nations. Summary notes, as always, provide below.
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