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Comment on Foundational Issues for Prospective Angel Investors by Will

Will — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 00:31:35 +0000

Excellent article and full of value. Nice job on the blog, Paul. I’m one of those entrepreneurs half interested and half frightened about working with the Angel community. Keep up the good work.
~ Will

Comment on The Neglected Art of (Timely) Pruning Lemons: Part 2 by Adam Perkins

Adam Perkins — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 23:18:26 +0000

Great advice. Caught this post off of twitter. I’m at an interesting crossroads and am putting together a new team for a new project. Great stuff to have in mind before jumping in.

Comment on About Paul Jones by 8 Winning Strategies From The Top Entrepreneurs in America

8 Winning Strategies From The Top Entrepreneurs in America — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 02:57:20 +0000

[...] with Venture Capitalist Paul Jones the other day — he told me the leading cause of high impact entrepreneurial failure is due to team [...]

Comment on Corporate Venture Capital: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective by peter

peter — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:34:48 +0000

hi there!, we operate a site http://www.imaginewhatsnext.com and so come into contact with many early stage entrepreneurs. many are looking at venture capital way too early and therefore limiting the complete development of their thoughts & objectives whilst putting management on a timeline toward tangible outcomes way too soon. this is something to avoid!

Comment on Corporate Venture Capital: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective by pajones1

pajones1 — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:45:43 +0000

Sure. Looks like you have an interesting site, as well. Cheerio.

Comment on Corporate Venture Capital: An Entrepreneur’s Perspective by James Mawson

James Mawson — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 21:34:49 +0000

Thanks Paul,
great summary – ok to pick up for my magazine with attribution and links?
cheers, jim
editor, Global Corporate Venturing

Comment on Cheaper … but still expensive by Will Tesch

Will Tesch — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 21:29:57 +0000

Painfully true. The best laid technology plans still need branding and therein lies the need for capital. If only our brave state would be as strongly opinionated on the need to start new technology businesses as they are on protecting workers perceived rights, we could be called the next tech valley. Well written and spot on.

Signed, lived there, bled there, tech-startup founder.

Comment on Back to the Future with Watson by Will

Will — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 22:13:20 +0000

I agree with all of your points. AI is defined by the limits of our understanding of our own brains. Until we can appreciate imagination or predict the routes of the synapses in our brains, we will not be able to create machines to ‘be intelligent’. We simply will create frameworks that model what we already know (ie expert systems). Yeah, and maybe do things incredibly fast so we can be impressive. Far be it for a machine to innovate too… Sometimes I think we just need to ask ourselves this question. “What if we had the intellectual courage to admit our ignorance?” In asking this question, I get personal fuel to innovate and learn. There are still so many wonders.

Comment on Back to the Future with Super Angels by Andy Reuland

Andy Reuland — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 02:48:04 +0000

As I haven’t been around long enough to know what happend 30 years ago, my guess is that the system, while still new compared to many other industries, is going to be cyclical. We may be seeing the start of this right now, and just seeing the conversion of Angels to Super-Angels (They are successful Angel’s turned VC basically), it’s only natural with continued success that some grow to the next uber VC’s. The intersting twist though, is that at the same time, the cost to fund and build a startup is going down dramatically. So will they just become giant VC’s with super gigantic portfolio’s? A great example is Dave McClure’s recent fund 500startups. The name says it all, as he plans to fund more than 500 startups, with a relatively small (compared to uber VC’s) fund, like 50MM. They’ve already funded 50 companies in a few months!

The other change is the style of the new VC’s, in that they are creating very transparent (at least to before) systems for funding, incubators, and giant groups of experienced and successful mentors/advisors. First Round Capital links all it’s CEO’s to a unique community and communication system for collaboration and problem solving. They even offer the ability for founders to get a special mutual fund style equity share, that all founders share with each other (basically you get a small piece of all the other portfolio companies, and give up a small share of your own, to succeed/fail together).

These style of VC’s are attracting the best deal flow, as entrepreneurs are currently gaining more power and control, and demanding more.

Andy

Comment on What Are High Impact Entrepreneurs Made Of? by Andy Reuland

Andy Reuland — Tue, 03 Aug 2010 18:41:49 +0000

Yeah you are probably spot on. My question is do you think HIB entrepreneurs can see this in themselves, or do they likely view themselves in a different light? This also gets to how do you seperate the Wannabe’s and The Real Deal’s, especially when your trying to assess a first timer with no track record. It’s easy to spot the ones that have been there and done it, but how do investors seperate them? A lot of people can pull off this attitude/personality for 3 months, maybe even 12 months, but is it truly in them, or just an act to try and raise money?