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Good Judgment Comes with Experience, But Experience Comes from Bad Judgment

This is part of my Startup Advice series of posts. I heard Bruce Dunlevie of Benchmark Capital say these words at a conference in London nearly 10 years ago.  I jotted the words down (I normally pay little attention to

Posted in Raising Venture Capital, Startup Advice 65 Comments ↓

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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Posted in Pitching VCs, Raising Venture Capital, Startup Advice, VC Industry 55 Comments ↓

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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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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