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How to deal with an 'annoying' VC on your board
This answer originally appeared on Quora as an answer to the question, "What is the best way to deal with a VC who became very 'annoying' after investing and taking a board seat, and adds more problems...
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Last year, a blog called A Plus was created in Ashton Kutcher's living room....
In April 2014, Evan Beard and Kendall Dabaghi launched a website, A Plus, in Ashton Kutcher's living room. They worked from the actor's Los Angeles pad for the next six months tirelessly, building a...
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How a PayPal 'Mafia' member helped this 26-year-old build an $865 million...
Not many people have the luxury of working with the Paypal "Mafia," the big shots from early days of the payment company that sold to eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002. But for those who do, like...
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Why Wall Street is pouring money into companies that want to eat its lunch
Financial technology startups are getting funding from the very industry they hope to disrupt.Known in short as fintech, these startups are changing the way people pay, lend, and invest, threatening...
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12 online services that make it really easy to dress like a modern gentleman
The modern gentleman is too busy to shop, but he still wants to look his best.Luckily, the e-commerce boom has reached men's clothing with a wide number of services catered to how men like to shop —...
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Pinterest, Snapchat, BuzzFeed – here come tech’s multibillion-dollar babies
‘A million dollars isn’t cool. You know what’s cool? A billion dollars.”That immortal line, uttered in the film The Social Network by Justin Timberlake (playing Napster co-founder Sean Parker) to Jesse...
View ArticleThe head of the most important startup farm in Silicon Valley thinks...
Y Combinator head Sam Altman agrees with other recent complaints that early stage startups are often overvalued.But he blames investors, not the founders who started those companies.His remarks counter...
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One of tech's most important investors says 'you'll see some dead unicorns...
Investor Bill Gurley has warned that Silicon Valley's golden age could soon be over — and that some of today's biggest startups could go down with it, The New York Times reports.Gurley is a prominent...
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18 mistakes that will kill your startup
Single Founder – as a single founder you have almost zero chance of getting funding from Paul Graham. Why? It’s not a coincidence, he says, that founders who succeeded did so as a team of at least...
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What to expect from Y Combinator's Demo Day, when founders pitch their...
Today is prestigious startup incubator Y Combinator's Demo Day for its Winter 2015 class. Every year, Y Combinator has two funding cycles — one goes from January through March, and the other is from...
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An open letter to Y Combinator founders on Demo Day
It’s YC fundraising season and the perennial discussion about valuations has begun. It’s frankly kinda tired. Smart investors will do fine investing in YC companies at “exorbitant” pricing, and crappy...
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Tinder founder Sean Rad explains why the dating app is so popular
Tinder is on a tear. Founded less than three years ago, the dating app has facilitated more than 6 billion matches between users — many of whom end up getting married.Those are a few of the insights...
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Why you should treat your startup like a rock band
Fresh out of Babson College, I did what any smart finance major would do – I started a rock band.I founded Lansdowne, a Boston-based country-rock band, and I treat it like the business that it is. Like...
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There's a good reason why retirement funds are putting big bucks into tech...
Yesterday, the New York Times published some interesting statistics about retirement funds investing in big privately held tech companies — including so-called "unicorns" with billion-dollar-plus...
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The founder of Foursquare has the perfect explanation for why the company is...
The following piece by Dennis Crowley, Founder and CEO of Foursquare, originally appeared on Medium.By now I’m hoping you saw the news from Twitter about Foursquare powering location-tagging in...
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Why it’s time we paid employees to exercise at work
Is your job killing you?According to death statistics from 2011 compiled by the CDC, the top three killers in the United States are heart disease, cancer and chronic lower respiratory diseases like...
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Pinterest just made a deal with employees that could rock the startup world
Last week, Pinterest made a huge change to how startup employees collect equity, Fortune's Dan Primack reports.Now, the digital pinboard company will let former employees who have been at the company...
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Legendary investor Fred Wilson: Here's how much money a startup needs to raise
Union Square Ventures' Fred Wilson has one simple principle when it comes to how much money startups should raise: less is more.Mark Suster, a partner at Los Angeles-based VC firm Upfront Ventures,...
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A major tech investor says 'a whole bunch of crazy little companies will...
Michael Moritz, the chairman of Silicon Valley VC firm Sequoia Capital, has a warning for Silicon Valley."There are a whole bunch of crazy little companies that will disappear. There are a considerable...
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A warning to startups from the head of Silicon Valley's most important...
Sam Altman, the president of top startup incubator Y Combinator, isn't shy of voicing his opinion when it comes the current market's outsized valuations and high cash burn rates.On Monday, at Demo Day,...
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