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hmm...strange. let me look into it.

I think the organizer should have been upfront with you about what he/she wanted you to talk on. That said, I don't think it was an offensive request. The organizer wasn't being pr…

Do we need to pander to VCs? I'm also not sure that your assertion that it hurts their credibility is true. Fred Wilson has publicly admitted himself that he hasn't led a deal all …

How is this manipulative? While the data may not be 100% accurate, I think the author makes a lot of great points about finding out what series A deals a particular investor has do…

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Have previously done a lot of paper prototyping for new projects using Balsamiq and Mockingbird by printing out mocked up web experiences and sitting down with people in coffee sho…

If I were to do that all over again, I would've focused on building an audience around a pinterest-like blog or FB page with cool retail items so that we would've had people to lau…

Soneca, you are absolutely right. In this case, we shut it down, and my co-founder decided to move on. This just wasn't meant to be. After that, I decided to team up with a differe…

Great point, Tibbon -- I didn't even touch the fundraising side of things.

Good question! I've found it's easiest through progress in this manual sort of way. It's a much easier pitch to say, "hey, I need you, because we have all these paying customers wh…