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The ABCs of Starting an Investor Pitch Meeting – Always Be Credible

Seeing Both Sides

Dave’s Series A round was way over-subscribed by folks like First Round, Ron Conway, Roger Ehrenberg, Founder Collective and I think it’s in no small part because his background and delivery were so crisp and relevant. If you don’t engage your audience, they’ll jump to their Blackberries. Keep it short.

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MineralSoft’s Gabe Wilcox Talks About Disrupting an Industry on the Ideas to Invoices Podcast

SiliconHills

By Laura Lorek Publisher of Silicon Hills News and Host of the Ideas to Invoices Podcast A native of Arkansas, Gabe Wilcox and his family know firsthand the problem mineral rights owners have in managing their assets. “It It has been a very archaic industry,” said Wilcox, CEO and co-founder of MineralSoft. In the U.S.,

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I Love My Coffee (Gear & Beans Edition)

Hunter Walker

In particular give Onyx (Arkansas) and Passenger (Lancaster, PA). Cofounder Tony Konecny (aka Tonx ) worked at some of the earliest third wave roasters before starting a subscription coffee site that exited to Blue Bottle. A lot of wonderful regional roasters and some smaller brands I’d never heard of before. Trade Coffee.

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Shut Up and Invest? Investors Weighing in on Politics

This is going to be BIG.

It’s an entirely fair question—and the risk is that limited partners, founders, or other VCs might not want to work with me because I’m vocal about my political views. I suspect, though, there are even some founders out there who could be put off by the things I write and probably how I write them. We get judged all the time.

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Are You From Where Your Were Born?

Feld Thoughts

In the article The biggest tech company founders from every state I win the callout for Arkansas. “Arkansas: Brad Feld has bounced around a lot: born in Arkansas, raised in Dallas, then lived in Boston for over a decade before moving to Boulder, Colorado.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 27: Brandon Bruce and Jack Sundell

Steve Blank

It follows the journeys of founders who share what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more. Brandon Bruce , co-founder of Cirrus Insight software company. Jack Sundell , co-founder of The Root Café farm-to-table restaurant. Jack Sundell.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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Consider Daniel Dreymann, a founder of Goodmail Systems Inc., Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., And companies that didnt survive might have closed their doors for reasons other than failure, for example, getting acquired or the founders moving on to new projects.