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Re: Crowdsourcing Demand

FundingPost — Wed, 02 May 2012 07:28:39 -0000

If you come, they will build it

Re: Trading Deals, A Lost Art?

FundingPost — Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:30:43 -0000

Will the emergence of smaller funds begin moving in the other direction?

Re: The NYC Web Startup Sector

FundingPost — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 09:05:31 -0000

Nice job!

Re: Failure

FundingPost — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:41:25 -0000

Great Post - I love reading your stuff!

Re: A Tale of Two Pitches

FundingPost — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 11:47:55 -0000

I agree with your point, though I think your 2 examples are a bit exaggerated. Pitch 1 didn't really come off as a pitch, just a discussion. Steve Barsh at DreamIt Ventures mentioned at one of my events: " Ask for money and you get advice, ask for advice and you get money". That kinda reminds me of Pitch #1.

Pitch #2 completely sucked. I'm impressed that you let him stay for a whole hour. I always recommend to Skip the video, though some entrepreneurs really want it. (Ive only seen one pitch that had a video that I liked. It lasted around 30 seconds and it demoed the software. It was half way through the pitch and didn't have audio. The CEO talked over the pre-recorded mouse moves.)

To your point - leave out the fanfare and flashy overproduced sales materials. Your goal as an entrepreneur is to show the VC who you are and demonstrate your ability to run a company (management is key!) AND to give the details about the company and opportunity. You do need to sell (you always have to sell) but do it without appearing salesy. :)

Re: 50 Leaders Who All Young Entrepreneurs MUST Follow on Twitter

FundingPost — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 14:28:02 -0000

Great list! My goal is to make one of your lists one day :)

Re: 50 Leaders Who All Young Entrepreneurs MUST Follow on Twitter

FundingPost — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 15:24:18 -0000

Great list!

Re: Twitter’s Suggested Users are Less ReTweetable

FundingPost — Fri, 29 May 2009 11:02:32 -0000

Anyone notice that they have the half the cast of Star Trek TNG on there? Punky Brewster, Weird Al, Jessica and Ashley Simpson, and the Dell Outlet for questions on your broken refurbished dell. I understand your statistic :)
Joe

Re: Get More ReTweets With ReTweet.net

FundingPost — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 16:49:24 -0000

Very cool - I cant wait to see the completed version!!

Re: NYC needs another early stage VC, or two, or three

FundingPost — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:40:11 -0000

There are a few that you are missing, for instance: Crossbar Capital isnt even listed here, they have invested in a few co's in NYC like cloudsmith, payoneer, reimage.

As for meeting VCs in NYC, there are events out there that bring Entrepreneurs and VCs together in the same room. Here is my event on Sept 16 : http://www.FundingPost.com/...

Re: Charles River Ventures introduces friendly “convertible” seed round

FundingPost — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 13:05:06 -0000

I think it's very smart. At FundingPost, we are seeing more and more companies raising less money to get started and there is a HUGE void left by the VCs in this area. While there are new Angel Groups popping up every day, seed VC is tough to find! It makes a lot of sense that the fund size is only $250M - down from $1.2B. That would be a lot of $250K deals to manage :)