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I am not a rich man. I'd like to be (one day), but I am not now. When I am, I will have more shit and travel more places, but I doubt I'll be a lot happier.I've got a general thesis about money: it's an enabler, not an end in and of itself. Money does...
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SpeakerText Founder Matt Mireles on Becoming Famous Overnight, Fundraising, and Why He’s Soon Ditching New York for Silicon ValleyFor Matt Mireles, 29, life after graduating from Columbia University in 2008 was “hard and lonely,” he says. “I was on my own, trying to...
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Ahh, the ironies of life. When I started talking to investors in New York about SpeakerText––not even trying to raise money at that point, mind you––I offered a grand vision of how the company was going to "change the internet" and revolutionize how...
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Pitching your startup to investors is a deeply personal matter. More often than not, they––politely or not––call your baby ugly. And that hurts. Good founders, I think, learn to not take the criticism too personally. But in the end, it is personal. They...
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Why we should be thankful that we live in a world in which VCs exist, even if they yell at us during board meetings, assuming they'll fund our companies at all: Imagine living in a world in which professional venture capital didn't exist. There's no...
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My prayers have been answered! There is now an official NYC Startup Job Fair scheduled for Friday, April 9th, from 1-5p. The event will take place at the AOL Headquarters in Grenwich Village (770 Broadway) in the Village.This is an awesome development! I expect a lot...
