CEO Blog

MAY 7, 2012

In that, I talk about the advantages of being small (like the Canrock Ventures fund). I wrote a blog entry on the Canrock blog called " A Fat Wallet is the Enemy of High Investment Returns " (this is a Warren Buffett quote). My 95 year old inlaws just got email for the first time. They rank among my idols.

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Competitive Advantage Venture Funding Blog Learning-by-Doing 124

CEO Blog

OCTOBER 28, 2011

I found the film inspirational since what I now do is early stage venture funding. It included stories of the founding of Cisco (and the firing of the founder by the VC), Atari, Genentech, Tandem, Intel and others. I was struck by the fairly long timeframes for success. Most "overnight successes" took 25 years.

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Venture Capitalist Venture Funding Film Innovation 147

CEO Blog

MAY 3, 2012

I contributed a chapter on Venture Funding in an eBook. The more your connections, the greater your influence (according to Klout) and the greater your chance of being retweeted or talked about. Please tweet this blog post and retweet all the @jimestill you can. Oops sorry - forgot rule 3. Wonder if that will improve my Klout score.

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