Angels Best Practices #SmartMoneySV

We had a great Angel Roundtable @Smart$Money in Silicon Valley on Angels Best Practices.  It was moderated by Robert Scoble, Scobleizer & speakers were Jeff Pulver, Investor; Zohar Levkovitz, CoFounder Amobee; Bill Reichert, Managing Director  Garage Ventures; Wayne Sutton, Founder PitchTo; Neal Strickberger, Angel Investor; Prashant Shah, Board of Directors TIE Angels; Gwen Edwards, Managing Director Golden Seeds & Kathy LaPorte, New Leaf Venture Partners.

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VC Roundtables #SmartMoneySV

We had some great investors speak on vc roundtables @SmartMoney Silicon Valley.  Here is the first one ‘Silicon Valley Venture Trends Roundtable’ which featured Cathy Lego, Lego Ventures; Eurie Kim, Principal Forerunner Ventures; Gamiel Gran, Partner Sierra Ventures; Saad Khan, Partner CMEA IT; Sarah Cone, Associate Illuminate Ventures; Christine Tsai, Partner 500Startups with moderator Christina Farr, Venturebeat.

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Steve Blank: Do Dysfunctional Families Breed Entrepreneurs?

Steve Blank spoke about his theory that dysfunctional families breed entrepreneurs @Smart$Money in Silicon Valley.  I find this is a fascinating subject & had shared his original article many years ago with many folks.  He also spoke about how Founders often need to move on when a startup grows.  As long as everyone is clear about this fact that Founders’ skills are more about research & that building a company requires other skills, then there is nothing wrong.  His original article which is brilliant is on VentureBeat  You can find Steve @his blog & on Twitter @sgblank

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