Learn to Duck

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Category: investing

Mentor / Advisor / Investor

Tweet Late yesterday afternoon, Dave McClure sent an email to all 500startup founders and mentors. It went like this: “Hey you! If you are an accredited investor, show you love a member of 500startups by investing a small amount. Trust me even $5 or $10k can make a huge difference and you should do it.” [...]

What’s More Evil? VCs or Startups?

Tweet In the past couple of days there have been a couple of posts floating around that I really agree with: Michael Arrington's post on working hard; and the response of the quoted developer, Jamie Zawinski, who says, in essence – dont forget who really makes money from your hard work. Are VCs really just [...]

Sight Adjustments

Tweet Sunday morning. Football’s on. I have a cup of coffee I brewed (Im getting good at it!) and am catching up on ESPN.com. Yesterday, or maybe the night before, I read a post about 500startups and their approach to investing. I tweeted that it was both what I loved and disliked about the 500startups [...]