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The Problem with Startup Advice

This is going to be BIG.

Conferences, startup blogs, meetups--they're all filled with people telling you how to build your company. When people tell you how and why they raised capital or what drove their app to success, they often attribute success to planning or neat little explainable reasons when they might simply have no clue what happened.

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Dear MBAs who want to work at startups

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Even better would be additional links to your blog and Twitter. When you’re not blogging, even occasionally, here’s what a startup is going to think, fairly or unfairly: This person isn’t passionate enough to share their ideas about this industry. Tags: Venture Capital & Technology. This person has no ideas about this industry.

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Careers in Tech Startups & Innovation: What will I learn?

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I've had the privilege of working not only for investors like Josh Kopelman and Fred Wilson, but for an institutional LP that had been invested in venture capital since 1980. 3) Build a peer network and get in the flow of best practices. Find the best startup CMOs while also branching out to your peer group to learn as a cohort.

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Reverse Engineering a Career

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He was interested in venture capital and was a year away from graduation. If you want to be in venture capital, ask a bunch of junior VC types what they actually do all day, and ask a bunch of partners what they expect the junior VC types to do all day (I wonder if this would come anywhere close to matching up.)

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The Role of Angel Groups Going Forward

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I'm peripherally more aware of more sources of capital and what they like then I ever have been. I follow other investors on Twitter, Quora, and respond to blog posts--I've even been able to strengthen my ties to other investors through Instagram. When you speak for a lot of smart dollars, you can help ensure best practices.

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10 Things for Startups to Do in August While Everyone Else is on Vacation

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Spend a day combing LinkedIn, Github, Stackoverflow, Twitter, Blogs, etc just building a 50-100 person list of people that look interview-worthy. Have each member of the team queue up a bunch of blog posts. Start reaching out. Reporters are always connected, so they might have more time to check out what you're doing now.

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Meet Waldo, Head of Corp Dev

This is going to be BIG.

Back in 2005, when I was with Union Square Ventures, we changed our brochureware homepage into a blog. A few other VCs had been blogging before, but no one had gone as far as to make the whole front facing effort of their firm into something so interactive. It changed the way we worked with entrepreneurs.