Best Practices Investors Startups 
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NOVEMBER 30, 2011
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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AUGUST 25, 2011
First off, I couldn't actually afford to go anywhere on a startup salary. So what's a startup to do during these two weeks? Chances are, they're not on vacation if they're thinking about leaving, or if they're at another startup that just isn't going anywhere. Second, there was way too much to do. Start reaching out.
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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. 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. Before you start writing checks, just spend some time with startups. 3) Start with funds.
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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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JULY 21, 2014
Plus, the startup world is littered with companies that grew exponentially without becoming successful--Fab, Turntable, Dailybooth, etc. Marketing problems, for the most part, are solvable by a very distinct set of best practices. If anything, it just confuses an investor. How does your sales support staff change?
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AUGUST 22, 2012
You have a million things to get done at your startup, yet you only have a handful of people to do them. What is the Minimum Viable Team, if you will, for a startup? I can break down all the things a startup needs to do into three ideal people. Now we’re down to nine core business functions on a small startup team.
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MARCH 5, 2014
At the early stage, the ranks of the non-partner investor are disappearing. And no, analyzing startups is not a portfolio company benefit. To the company, as a recently minted MBA with no startup experience who wants to run the 4th year numbers, you''re just a pain in the ass. They are, however, staffing up with specialists.
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