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• Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 1
• Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2
• Lawyers are referees, not coaches
• Advice is for learning, not copying
• (A bit of) Decision-making for startups
• We teach entrepreneurship like every vertical market has the same set of rules

• Launch: AngelList, a curated list of angel investors
• Launch: StartupList — a new way to reach angels
• StartupList: Day 1 — Thank You
• StartupList: The first startup gets funded
• How to schedule meetings with investors
• Which angels have taken meetings from AngelList?
• Postling gets funded with AngelList
• Can I send my pitch to just some of the angels on AngelList?
• Interview: How to close an angel round
• "AngelList is the real deal"
• Facebook acquires AngelList startup
• How much traction do I need?
• NYC startup raises money with AngelList
• Local startup BlockChalk raises national money with AngelList
• The WSJ reports on AngelList
• A tale of 3 financings
• If you’ve run out of ideas, buy gold
• Fred Wilson: "Angels love to share deals with each other"
• Thumbtack raises money with AngelList
• LearnBoost raises money with AngelList
• Tracking testimonials — the lazy way
• Quora Marketing
• Xconomy covers AngelList
• AngelList Scouts
• How Udemy got oversubscribed
• Blogging on Quora
• Which startups have been funded via AngelList?
• Free the Firehose
• "Intros from AngelList were responsible for 54.5% of the $1M we raised"
• AngelList in real time
• Control which investors see your startup
• Why would a seasoned entrepreneur use AngelList?
• Benefits, not features
• Raise a Series A on AngelList
• How does AngelList work?
• Tour: Markets on AngelList
• AngelList Markets Tour, Part 2: The Details
• VCs are generalists, and other lies
• VCs (slightly) more active than angels on AngelList
• Venture Hacks sucks now, all you talk about is AngelList
• Taulia raises Series A from top performing VC fund of all time — via AngelList
• AngelList Goes Global
• Thoughts on Investing
• Launch: The AngelList Blog
• So who is actually investing on AngelList?
• Are you selling your startup's shares door-to-door?
• AngelList startup wins TechCrunch Disrupt
• 1.5 Years Of AngelList: 8000 Intros, 400 Investments And That's Just The Data We Can Tell You About

• Office Hours: Technical Error Edition
• Potpourri: Introductions, Auctions, Tranches, and Co-Investors
• Raise money from VCs or angels?
• How do I find a lead investor? Part 1
• How do I find a lead investor? Part 2
• Lijit's CEO on raising money from angels
• Do you know any idea investors?
• How to be an angel investor, Part 2
• "Angel investors are becoming the dominant force in consumer internet venture capital"
• Our Inc. interview about angels
• VCs in seed clothing: Chris Dixon, Mark Suster, and Naval Ravikant interviewed
• If this is your first time raising money…
• Angel Boot Camp coming to Cambridge
• How to raise money with no lead
• 7 angel investing tips in 7 minutes

• Just Say No: VC terms that can really hurt

• Office Hours: Technical Error Edition
• Potpourri: Introductions, Auctions, Tranches, and Co-Investors
• Create a market for your shares
• How is raising money like buying a car?
• What's the biggest mistake entrepreneurs make?
• Complete business diligence before you sign a term sheet
• Should I shop around?
• Tips from a ex-VC who helps entrepreneurs raise money
• How to schedule meetings with investors

• The Venture Hacks Bible

• Create a board that reflects the ownership of the company
• Make a new board seat for a new CEO
• What are the benefits of debt in a seed round?
• Why do investors want protective provisions?
• What's the biggest mistake entrepreneurs make?
• What's the difference between smart money and dumb money?
• Trust, but verify: Why investors want control
• Control is a one way street
• Opening board meetings to the entire company
• Take guidance from VCs, not orders

• John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins on building Intuit
• Randy Komisar on the Rocket Ship investment model
• Randy Komisar’s 'The Monk and the Riddle'
• Books for Entrepreneurs: Bargaining for Advantage
• Books for Entrepreneurs: Agile Software Development
• Customer Development: How to develop your customers like you develop your product
• Five whys, Part 1: The startup immune system
• The OODA Loop: Playing chess with half the pieces
• Books for Entrepreneurs: Extreme Programming Explained
• We don't pay you to work here
• The spontaneous optimism that drives startups
• The Human Equation: How to organize people for profit
• Launch: Pitching Hacks, The Book
• Venture Hacks Bookstore
• How to share secrets in a negotiation
• Emotions at work

• How do we set the valuation for a seed round?
• Chris Dixon: How much seed money should I raise?

• What should I send investors? Part 3: Business Plans, NDAs, and Traction

• How is raising money like buying a car?
• Grockit's founder on pitching investors
• Investors might share your plans with the competition
• Terminating Cisco's founders
• Trust, but verify: Why investors want control
• Half-Assed Startup: Start your company and keep your day job
• John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins on building Intuit
• How much money should we raise?
• Lijit's CEO on raising money from angels
• From incoherent to high concept pitch
• High concept pitch: Feedburner for iPhones
• Mike Cassidy: Speed as THE primary business strategy
• A Hollywood for startups
• Elevator pitches with bullets
• How Steve Jobs pitches a startup
• "Agile methods and startup companies… go perfectly together."
• How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year
• A tale of 3 financings

• Make a new board seat for a new CEO
• Accelerate your vesting upon termination
• Supersize your vesting with these microhacks

• Complete business diligence before you sign a term sheet
• Discuss your plans before signing a term sheet
• When investors try to re-negotiate a term sheet
• How to close a term sheet quickly
• 5 New Year's resolutions for closing deals in 2010

• Potpourri: Introductions, Auctions, Tranches, and Co-Investors

• Reactions to Venture Hacks
• Comments: Legal fees, options pools, and vesting
• Comments: Convertible debt and vesting
• Comments: Convertible debt
• Comments: Startup founders speak
• Reactions to Recommended
• How to moderate (and write) comments
• Comments of the week: Legal fees, financial projections, and fit

• Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors, Part 2
• I have a job offer at a startup, am I getting a good deal? Part 1: The offer
• We don't pay you to work here
• The Human Equation: How to organize people for profit

• A conflict of interests
• Always assume competition

• O'Reilly Startup Camp
• Notes from Startup School 2009
• I'm speaking at The Future of Funding
• [Startup Digest]: "The best startup events in 27 cities"
• I'm speaking at SXSW + Holding a SXSW MEETUP
• What happens at SXSW gets published right here
• Startup Lessons Learned: I wish this conference was around five years ago
• 7 angel investing tips in 7 minutes

• Should I raise debt or equity?
• Comments: Convertible debt and vesting
• Keep your Series A options open if you raise debt
• What are the benefits of debt in a seed round?
• Make your debt attractive to investors
• Comments: Convertible debt
• Supersize your debt with these microhacks
• How to make a cap table

• Randy Komisar on the Rocket Ship investment model
• Customer Development: How to develop your customers like you develop your product
• How IMVU learned its way to $10M a year
• Take a course from the king of customer development
• The Venture Hacks Podcast
• Don't launch? But the New York Times is on the phone!
• The king of customer development starts a blog (and tweets too)
• What is the minimum viable product?
• Customer Development, Classes 3 and 4
• Sell it before you build it
• It's very easy to underprice your product
• We teach entrepreneurship like every vertical market has the same set of rules
• Customer Development, Class 5: IMVU