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Re: Presenting Founder Collective

chris dixon — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 09:47:14 -0000

Well, this blog post http://cdixon.org/?p=1893 was meant to address one of my main suggestions about pitching.

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nobody — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:16:19 -0000

Chris,
When do you think you have an answer to this question?

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Chris Sorensen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:03:45 -0000

This is exactly what we need here in Silicon Valley.
Please let me know when you open an office in Palo Alto.

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LJC — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 23:38:00 -0000

I am review some of your past successes, very impressive. I am very interested in the mentor but I do not need the money. Would Founder Collective take on startup for mentoring?

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chris dixon — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:05:06 -0000

It's a big question. I'm going to respond soon with a full blog post.

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TC — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 10:02:32 -0000

I saw some video pitch online that was good. Maybe you should try video pitching.

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mab — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:37:17 -0000

one more note.

Add yourself to angelsoft.net, because if you don't they provide misleading information to discourage people from apply to you. For example, the firm True Ventures invest in early seed startup but they will list it as a very late stage funding VC outfit to discourage potential early stage startup from applying.

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mab — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 11:26:30 -0000

I am not Ankesh Kothari. I just use his post as example. Please don't take it personally. I am a straight shooter.

1. Your issue with overwhelming messages is a common problem with many companies. You can use auto response email to acknowledge receive of the message. Maybe you can add some feature (link) to allow sender to automatically track average time to response and their order in the queue. Better yet make it into a web service for other business to use as well. One example would be federal and local government agency which handles many requests in a given day. Anyone reading this, do run with the idea. I have a ton.

2. While it is easy to say you be different, proof it! suggestion, do an online youtube documentary for your vc with a entrepreneur. Start from reading the first executive summary to taking the company to success or failure. It will be like ABC shark tank but showing then how you do it different and how you can help with more than money.

3. I not an entrepreneur. I saw too many dreams destroy by investors. One investor trick me into signing my patent away. He was an angel investor. So I am now just give warning. I am here to kiss up, I here to share my view.

My apology if I insulted you in anyway.

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sullivan8263 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:34:14 -0000

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sullivan8263 — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:33:09 -0000

What's the best way to present an idea to you? I've heard the traditional business plan isn't relevant. Great blog!

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chris dixon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:16:09 -0000

Dude, I posted this on Monday. Today is Thursday. We got tons of
emails since then - far more than we could intelligently respond to.
The fact that we haven't responded to you in under 3 days makes us
"wolves"?

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mab — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 10:05:28 -0000

no different than any other VC. they ignore entrepreneur's questions and request for information to their site's email. their site say "say hello, we're nice". they forgot to say "at long as you not serious about actually looking for help". Look at the post from Ankesh Kothari, his question still being ignore.

entrepreneurs don't bend over yet! they are just like any VC.
study the posted comments and you will realize this is just a PR spin for a wolf. not all VC are equal. many great company are started with the help of VC. At least they don't pretend to be a sheep.

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chris dixon — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:46:50 -0000

we're pretty overtly capitalist actually.

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alex — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:47:36 -0000

yet another capitalist wolf in sheep's disguise:)

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Brian Link — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 22:37:09 -0000

Brilliant. This is absolutely fantastic. I will anxiously await an opportunity to come to NYC to meet with you guys.

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TC — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:40:59 -0000

I am looking for mentors and investments for my new company (mobile market). What kind of information is needed for submition for application? Better yet, what I have to do to get 5 min of your time?

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ShanaC — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 20:51:10 -0000

COngrdaultions.

Read the really Radical. Critical Art Ensemble...Tactical Media, Observations on Collective Cultural Action (You may plagiarize this document, you just have to tell them, they are, err, a step beyond creative commons)

http://www.critical-art.net...

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Kristine Maltrud — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 19:23:14 -0000

Love what you're doing. P2P is changing the world, 1 P2P at a time. Also love that you're having a dialogue right here! We're not located in NYC, but having great conversations with artists and arts orgs there about P2P fundraising for artists/arts projects. Cheers!

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Coach Wei — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 17:05:39 -0000

Chris - this is fantastic for Boston and NYC. We need more of this. In particular, the model is very interesting (by entrepreneurs who are in the trenches) vs the normal VC model (by ex-entrepreneurs who were successful but see the everything from the 1-2 successes years ago, MBAs who never built a company, or worse, bankers).

--Coach Wei

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netjacobsson — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:50:13 -0000

Really good idea. Wish you all the best. We need more initiatives like this. The era of the investpreneur has come

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Dave Blanchard — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:38:33 -0000

Pretty cool Chris...congrats!

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chris dixon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:22:35 -0000

Thanks!!

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chris dixon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:21:58 -0000

> Sounds like the partner most in-line with the startup will take lead on the investment for FC and will receive a bigger piece of the pie then other fund partners for doing so.

Yeah.

Board seat: sometimes, but not necessary. We are very flexible.

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chris dixon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:20:44 -0000

I haven't but it looks interesting. Thanks for the link.

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chris dixon — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:19:56 -0000

We are totally open to New Haven and agree there have been some interesting startups coming out of there lately.