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No longer at Donna Summer concert ... but it was great!
| At Donna Summer concert |
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| Is Facebook about to remove all third party apps? http://tinyurl.com/5evdlu |
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| esp for @TechCrunch - is Google Docs down? |
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| Looking for a map website which shows city/town boundaries... any ideas? |
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| VC truism: For better or worse, VCs do not sign NDAs |
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| VC pitch: it's not about the highest valuation, it's about the highest value |
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| VC Truism: You can't scale a mess [from Irving Wladawsky-Berger] |
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| VC truism: life is too short to do business with people, or get into an investment (either making or taking), unless you can get along |
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| @strussell tell them you have to put on your steel boots to go out front at 3am, but can go to the yard in your slippers! |
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| VC truism: if success (or failure) depends on whether you get funded this quarter or next, then it is not a great investment opportunity |
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| VC truism: for VCs, the word "summer" is a verb - get your business done before July 4 |
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| Fixed Outlook 2007 performance problems: turned off email indexing in Google Desktop... luckily I have and love Xobni |
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| @deanwhit - so where is the new gig? |
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| @sjalloul trying again! Seth Levine's blog on getting a job in VC: http://tinyurl.com/6rbfo5 |
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| @sjalloul you ask about a recent grad getting a job in VC - it's very tough - see http://tinyurl.com/6rbfo5 |
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| VC Truism: VCs have deep pockets, but short arms |
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| VC Terminology: it's *my* deal if it was a winner, and *our* deal if it was a loser |
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| VC Rule of Thumb: don't pay more in an A round than you expect to have to pay for the same company's B round |
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| For those who wonder, "morning all" is a nod to Dixon of Dock Green and his "Evening All" greeting. http://tinyurl.com/6kx6x8 |
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