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I remain very impressed with www.thefunded.com. It continues to develop as a repository of reviews and war stories related to the high end of venture capital. You can join for free, and browse through opinions about VC lenders, plus some…
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This is just plain exciting to me. Online videos, free, including Guy Kawasaki, Jerry Kaplan, Eric Schmidt, Larry Page, Bob Sutton, and a great selection of topics including venture capital, entrepreneurship … this is really good stuff. I just discovered…
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The right solar panels spread over a 10 mile by 10 mile square of Eastern Oregon desert could provide enough power to run the United States. Or so I was told last week by Scott Pope, of Sustainable Wealth, who…
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Tim Draper is one of the most influential and best known venture capitalists in the world, founding partner of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, and he’s looking at a brave new world of new media, content, and new opportunities. This is from…
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(Note: I posted this on Up and Running yesterday. I’m crossposting it here for reader’s convenience. – Tim) I really don’t like the word “valuation”; it sounds too much like an MBA buzzword. But I like even less the general…
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What’s a visionary sheep? Is that a good thing (visionary) or a bad one (sheep)? The person using the phrase at www.thefunded.com followed that phrase with “Only one of them has the guts and the vision to try something new…
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Seth Godin posts “The Netflix of …” today on the value of being an original instead of an imitator. We have the general assumption of first mover advantage and first to market, and nobody wants to be a copy. However,…
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I read Paul Kedrosky regularly and like most of what I read, but this Twitter business plan post is just so wrong, on so many different levels: “Seeing that Twitter closed a funding round, and spotting the associated incredulity about…
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Much as I liked Marc Andreessen’s series of posts on start-ups at his blog at pmarca.com, it’s bothered me that he’s talking about a very select subset of business start-ups, the cream of the start-up crop, and not the mainstream….
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Yes, thank you. VC Stu Phillips points out that the so-called “pitch deck” doesn’t stand alone. “It’s a prop to help YOU tell a COMPELLING story and get the next meeting. You are the star of the show and without…
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