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Quick link to another fave blog Altgate, by Furqan Nazeeri

I wanted to quickly give some linklove to Furqan Nazeeri, a former EIR from Softbank who’s been writing some great stuff on raising money. His blog is at Altgate.com, and the RSS feed is here.

He recently made a list of his popular posts which I’ll list below here:

Raising Capital:

Startups:

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Written by Andrew Chen
October 20th, 2008 at 7:55 am
  • rafer

    Wow, Andrew, you too? The person on the other side of the negotiation (even theoretically) is exactly the wrong place to go for this sort of guidance.

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    EIR != VC ;-)

  • http://www.altgate.com/ fnazeeri

    Andrew, thx for the props. You're my Robert Scoble. ;-)

    Rafer, I've been called a lot of things (with a name like mine you get used to it), but biased toward VCs is not one of them. Congrats for being the first! ;-)

  • rafer

    Walks like a duck….

    It's Stockholm syndrome at the very least.

  • rafer

    Not intending to offend or namecall. I just really think that about a quarter of your points lead to first-time entrepreneurs wasting years of their lives in bad deals.

  • http://www.altgate.com/ fnazeeri

    No offense taken, although I wish I had a 0.750 batting average my first time around!

  • rafer

    As do I. .250 would have looked good at certain points, however don't underestimate the people who will take your hints as gospel and get hosed as a result. With our scars comes more than a little responsibility.

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    lol rafer = smartass ;-)

  • http://rafer.tumblr.com rafer

    Wow, Andrew, you too? The person on the other side of the negotiation (even theoretically) is exactly the wrong place to go for this sort of guidance.

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    EIR != VC ;-)

  • http://www.altgate.com/ fnazeeri

    Andrew, thx for the props. You're my Robert Scoble. ;-)

    Rafer, I've been called a lot of things (with a name like mine you get used to it), but biased toward VCs is not one of them. Congrats for being the first! ;-)

  • http://rafer.tumblr.com rafer

    Walks like a duck….

    It's Stockholm syndrome at the very least.

  • http://rafer.tumblr.com rafer

    Not intending to offend or namecall. I just really think that about a quarter of your points lead to first-time entrepreneurs wasting years of their lives in bad deals.

  • http://www.altgate.com/ fnazeeri

    No offense taken, although I wish I had a 0.750 batting average my first time around!

  • http://rafer.tumblr.com rafer

    As do I. .250 would have looked good at certain points, however don't underestimate the people who will take your hints as gospel and get hosed as a result. With our scars comes more than a little responsibility.

  • http://andrewchen.typepad.com Andrew Chen

    lol rafer = smartass ;-)

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