Best Practices Funds Startups 
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APRIL 23, 2012
I have one failed attempt at a startup under my belt as a founder and I don't have any particularly usable skills that anyone would pay for like selling, designing, building, etc. Conferences, startup blogs, meetups--they're all filled with people telling you how to build your company. Most startups fail.
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JANUARY 24, 2011
One of the cool things about being a fund that works with so many early stage companies is that bringing the whole portfolio together in one place results in a lot of collaborative learning opportunities. Actually, startups tend to drop the ball on recruiting the same way they mess up in PR. Talent Acquisitions.
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MAY 14, 2012
Despite the attempts at seeding things way downtown, Flatiron and Soho is where tech startups grew, just like today. These are people whose business it is to support startups. Like pollinating bees, VCs bounce from meeting to meeting interacting with dozens of startups per week each. So why didn't it work?
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MARCH 19, 2012
Since I launched Brooklyn Bridge Ventures , a lot of people have asked me why I put the fund in Brooklyn. To me, there are a couple of basic reasons: 1) If nothing else, it's geographically closer to more startups than midtown firms like RRE, Greycroft, and Firstmark.so, *why not* put my office here? The question is "How?".
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MAY 29, 2012
History has shown that newly creates wealth shops the startup scene like a kid in a candy store. Before you start writing checks, just spend some time with startups. In fact, taking your own startup experience and assuming that all of your lessons learned apply to every startup is probably a really bad idea.
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MARCH 1, 2013
For a long time, they were basically the only game in town for seed and early stage funding in NYC. Smaller funds are thriving, and technology has been brought to bear in a major way with efforts like AngelList. Smaller funds are thriving, and technology has been brought to bear in a major way with efforts like AngelList.
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MARCH 13, 2010
Funding is running low, competitors iterating. Feature plans change, but the core of how you evaluate an opportunity and turn it into product is where I’m most focused as a VC now—since I was so bad at it as an entrepreneur. You often have to make decisions as an entrepreneur without the luxury of getting to wait.
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