Just a quick post to take care of two VCTips housekeeping items: 1. A big thank-you to Amish Jani from FIRSTMARK Capital, Oren Netzer from DoubleVerify, and Avner Ronen from Boxee for joining me and Bryce Roberts at this week's VCTips workshop at Web.
Topics: Venture Capital

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Aaron Patzer, CEO of MINT.com, dropped by The Funded and Vator.tv's Juice Pitcher tonight to share some secrets of the company's success. (Just in case you don't plug the TechCrunch feed directly into your brain stem: MINT is the wildly...
Topics: Technology, Venture Capital

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I haven't been a heavy user of the Twitter shout-out before, but I had such great response and feedback yesterday that I wanted to share. Before chatting with a reporter this morning about woman-founded startups, I thought it would be worthwhile to...
Topics: Women

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A great question came up recently in discussion with one of First Round's CEOs: how much equity should I allocate for hiring my next round of employees? For a company that has raised a first institutional round of capital, this question is important..

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Yes, it's true - for the first time, First Round Capital Office Hours will actually be held in our offices. Our San Francisco doors are open and entrepreneurs are welcome to drop on by for a few minutes of conversation. The entire First Round Capital.
Topics: Venture Capital

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