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VC Funding Season Ends Next Week

This is part of my series on Raising Venture Capital. I’m sure I’ll spark the ire of some VC’s for saying so, but there is certainly such a thing as black-out days in venture capital.  It’s worth you knowing this

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Are Business Plans Still Necessary?

This is part of my ongoing series of posts and I need to file this one under both Raising Venture Capital and Startup Advice. I remember going to an Under the Radar conference in 2006 in the heat of the

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Posted in Startup Advice 103 Comments ↓

Good Times Ahead for VC-backed Tech Companies?

Montgomery & Co Projects Deal Volume to Grow by 167% in Just 2 Years with No End to Growth in Sight On the third Wednesday of every month I co-chair a meeting called the SoCal VCA (venture capital alliance), which

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Posted in SoCal Stuff, VC Industry 15 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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Posted in Pitching VCs, Raising Venture Capital, Startup Advice 76 Comments ↓

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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