This is part of my ongoing series “Start Up Advice” but I’d really like to call this post, “VC Advice.” If a company has reached a level of success, has been around for a few years and you believe the…
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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?
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Posted in Pitching VCs, Startup Advice, VC Industry — 142 Comments ↓
The Best VC Meetings are Debates not Sales
This is part of my blog series “Pitching a VC.” I’ve sat through a lot of VC pitches and having been CEO of an enterprise software firm for many years I’ve also sat through many customer meetings with sales teams.…
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Posted in Pitching VCs, Startup Advice — 23 Comments ↓
Posted in Pitching VCs, Startup Advice — 23 Comments ↓
Most Common Early Start-up Mistakes
This is part of my ongoing series “Startup Advice” If you want to subscribe to my RSS feed please click here or to get my blog by email click here. In the Beginning … This is a very important post…
WTF is Traction? A 6-Step Relationship Guide to VC
This is part of my ongoing series on Raising VC. You’ve pitched several angels and VC’s. Everybody seems to like you but nobody seems to be getting out their checkbooks. Most of them are telling you that they just need…
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Posted in Pitching VCs, Startup Advice — 20 Comments ↓
Twiistup 6 Highlights
Twiistup 6 has come to an end. It proved to be a great transitional year. Out is the “cocktail only” Twiistup and in is the new format of a conference that should take its rightful place on the national technology…
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.
