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Which VC ?
My (highly intelligent and experienced) friend Chris Dixon just posted on the importance of VC brands . He makes many good points and you should read his perspective. But the issue Chris raises begs a more fundamental question: whether or not to take venture money, and if so, from whom?
Thoughts on Taking Venture Money
So when someone tells you they just raised money from a top tier firm, a good follow up quesiton is “which partner?”
It’s the partner, not the firm cdixon.org – chris dixon's blog
Y Combinator, which has spawned some 200 plus startups in just a few years, could be considered the king of this ecosystem, I said.
VCs And Super Angels: The War For The Entrepreneur
When Jack Dorsey Met Fred Wilson, And Other Twitter Tales (Book
Editor’s note : The following excerpt is from Mastering The VC Game , a new book by Jeffrey Bussgang that goes on sale Thursday. It tells the backstory of Twitter from the perspective of founder Jack Dorsey , from his early obsession with couriers and his attempts to create a better dispatch system to his “Aha” moment with Twitter (“What if we simply set status, archive it on the Web, use SMS to do it, and it all happens in real time?”) to why the company picked Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures as its first venture investor (“I want a VC who is always thinking a few steps ahead of me”).
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