We’re Nivi (bio) and Naval (bio). We’ve founded companies like Epinions; invested $20M in companies like Twitter; helped start companies backed by Sequoia, Benchmark, Kleiner Perkins, and Atlas; and advised many others.
We’re students of life and Venture Hacks shares the best startup advice we’ve got.
Reviews of Venture Hacks
– Evan Williams, Founder of Blogger and Twitter
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– James Hong, Founder of Hot or Not
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– Bart Decrem, Founder of Flock
“Much needed.”
– Joe Greenstein, Founder of Flixster
“You hit the nail on the head, regardless of what my colleagues say.”
– Suzie Dingwall Williams, Lawyer at Venture Law Associates
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– Paul Kedrosky, Infectious Greed
“Smart entrepreneurs continuing to add to the demystification of the term sheet.”
– Brad Feld, Managing Director at Foundry Group
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– Andrew Chen, EIR at Mohr Davidow Ventures
“The cheat codes for raising money.”
– Anonymous
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– Matt Mihaly, CEO of Sparkplay Media
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– Jonathan Grubb, Founder of Get Satisfaction
“Just a quick note to thank you — the first time I described Xpenser to you, you said ‘cool, it’s TripIt for expenses.’ I’ve been using that phrase ever since to great effect.”
– Parand Darugar, Founder of Xpenser
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Thanks
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