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How to Connect on Social Networks

I sometimes think that certain advice is BGO (blinding glimpse of the obvious) and doesn’t warrant mentioning.  But then people’s actions tell me otherwise. I wrote recently about etiquette when you meet people at conferences or events so now that

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How to (re) Approach People

Business Etiquette Tips for dealing with Business People at Conferences This is part of my ongoing series with Startup Advice.  With the LeWeb conference about to start in Paris I thought the timing of this post would be appropriate. Right

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The Really Annoying Part of Raising VC

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs.After my company was acquired by Salesforce.com I was asked to stop blogging and

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VC Seed Funding is Dead, Long Live VC Seed Funding!

This is part of my ongoing series about Raising Venture Capital. This posting was inspired by an email from Rajat Suri who wrote me an email in response to Chris Dixon’s blog post (link below) from August, which recently re-ran

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2010 VC Funding Outlook for Startups – Prepare for Winter (Part 3/3)

In the first post in this three part series I described why I believe the VC market froze between September 2008 – April 2009.  In the second post I argued that as of September 2009 the pace of VC investments

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Mark Suster is a 2x entrepreneur who has gone to the Dark Side of VC. He joined GRP Partners in 2007 as a General Partner after selling his company to Salesforce.com. He focuses on early-stage technology companies. Read more about Mark.

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