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Top Startup Winner: Balodana

The Startup Magazine

The event presenter, FUND, is a national connector of entrepreneurs, VCs, angel investors, and industry experts with a focus on deal flow and making connections. We curate and aggregate a collection of talented made-to-measure designer brands who showcase their garments in our integrated marketplace platform.

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May Your Help Be Wanted

Austin Startup

My suggestion to you as a prospective mentor is to align yourself with a program where there is some thoughtful curation of the matchmaking process that adds needed bias in favor of the best possible pairings. They had a couple of crusty NYC real estate barons on the show, and the audience asked astute questions.

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How to Build a Successful and Diverse Venture Capital Portfolio Without Really Trying

This is going to be BIG.

If you're doing that many companies at such an early stage, you're bound to be choosing from a wider audience. We should be willing to go through the firehose of crappy deals in their inbox for the money we make. Warm intro or not, no VC has the magical stream of only quality deal flow with nothing stupid added.

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Advice for VCs from a serial founder

Austin Startup

It drives up valuations, creates interest in the category among other investors, and in a new space a well funded competitor is usually out there educating audiences about the very problem the startup solves. Just as you look at deal flow as a funnel, a good CEO disqualifies and moves on.

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