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The Problem with Startup Advice

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I've only recently started leading investments a little over two years ago. My track record of leading deals consists of only seven investments, luckily no zeros (knock on wood) and one exit. Conferences, startup blogs, meetups--they're all filled with people telling you how to build your company. I mean, what do I know?

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Questions from Hunter #MondayMailbag

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He found me through my blog and I didn''t think he was real. Hunter Walk can''t be any blog commenters real name, can it? I wasn''t sure whether his answers would wind up here or vice versa, but when I thought about it, it turned out I was pretty adamant that my blog is for my voice. I''ve known Hunter Walk for almost a decade.

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

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You can have a pretty nice life that way if you're willing to make the upfront investment in learning a craft and working hard to be the best. 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.

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Meet Waldo, Head of Corp Dev

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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.

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e(verywhere)-Commerce

This is going to be BIG.

A lot of ideas came out of it—many were ones that we’ve been thinking about at First Round for a while, given our investments in One King’s Lane , Homerun , Bigdeal , Modcloth , Monetate and Packlate , among others. There’s also been some great blog chatter from Sarah Tavel ( here ) and Josh Kopelman ( here and here ) on the topic.

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5 Tips for New Angel Investors

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Over the course of the lifetime of a new angel investor, they'll do 70% of all of the angel investments they'll ever make in year one. Here are just a few suggestions: 1) Advise first, invest later. Angel investing is part lifestyle, part asset allocation. Before you start writing checks, just spend some time with startups.

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Indigo Marketing Agency Featured in Bob Veres’s Inside Information

Indigo Marketing Agency

We’re happy to announce that Indigo Marketing Agency was featured in Bob Veres’s August 2022 issue of Inside Information , a go-to resource for financial planning, financial advisor, and investment advisor professionals. Check them out here: Best Practices for Using Testimonials in Your Marketing (with Leila Shaver).