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Associate, DFJ Gotham
Mark is an Associate at DFJ Gotham Ventures. He works closely with DFJ Gotham portfolio companies ViVOtech and Drop.io.
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Recent Posts
- The Rule Of The One-Way Street
- Kohort Rings NYSE Bell
- How We Brainstorm
- #SOPA / #PIPA Explained
- High Peaks Launches Seedlet Program
- My Live Q&A on Inc.com
- High Peaks U: Media Training
- The CVC30
- Baking: How To Make The Best Out It
- CEOs Need To Check Out
- Your Company Is Who It Hires
- Hard Skills Are For Beginners
- My Recent Interview On Business Insider
- A New Way To Hire Engineers
- Not All Press Is Good Press
- Structuring Your Close
- Winning Venture Portfolios: Russell 5000, S&P 500 or Needle In The Haystack?
- Hiring Full-Time BD Person @ Kohort
- Be Wary Of The Instant Yes
- Amit Klein
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- May 2011 (2)
- April 2011 (4)
- March 2011 (1)
- February 2011 (3)
- 2011 (1)
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Posted: Thursday 2 February 2012
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Ever find your team debating a decision in which there are two very different yet justifiable solutions to a given problem? We all have. Very often these are the most contentious and most complicated decisions simply because despite rigorous review...
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Posted: Tuesday 31 January 2012
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Kohort was asked by the Startup America Partnership to help celebrate their 1-year anniversary. Alison and I ended up ringing the bell at the NYSE. The video is below. PS - the "bell" is actually a big green button.
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Posted: Tuesday 24 January 2012
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During my first week at Columbia Business School in the fall of 2007, class was interrupted to do an exercise with an improv troop. Not being much of a thespian, I scowled thinking that my time was about to be...
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Posted: Thursday 19 January 2012
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For techies who are nestled in their startup caves some of the major web properties (Google, Wikipedia, etc) protested SOPA/PIPA yesterday by either shutting down their sites or changing some of the content on their homepages. While we have a...
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Posted: Thursday 12 January 2012
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The cultural norms in the venture capital industry change. What I mean is that deal terms - valuation, control rights and beyond - change over time. A sweetheart deal last year is an outrage this year. A few years back...
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Posted: Thursday 15 December 2011
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For those who missed it - yesterday I did a 1-hour live Q&A on Inc.com. There were some great questions from the viewers. You can watch the Q&A here: Watch live video from Inc. Magazine on Justin.tv
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Posted: Friday 9 December 2011
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High Peaks CEOs & Ambassadors converged on Cooley Wednesday night to attend a rockstar course on Media Training. The course was part of a series High Peaks casually calls High Peaks University where we have industry leaders in a swath...
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Posted: Wednesday 30 November 2011
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Last night the Columbia Venture Community announced the CVC30. The CVC30 is a list of some of the most interesting people in startrup ecosystem out of Columbia University. This list represents the achievements of a lot of hard working folks...
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Posted: Tuesday 8 November 2011
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Every industry has its nuances. One of the most painful parts of the software space is waiting for the product to be baked. For business folks, waking up day-by-day to wait for software development can feel like watching a pot...
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Posted: Tuesday 1 November 2011
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As they delegate more of their day-to-day tasks, CEOs will be able to increasingly focus on strategic alignment. To me, strategic alignment means coordinating your efforts internally to achieve progress that fits into the external opportunity. In order to do...
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Posted: Wednesday 21 September 2011
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Have you ever had a really frustrating experience with a customer service person - maybe a clerk at a store, a teleservice rep for a service provider? What did you say when you got off the phone? Did your curse...
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Posted: Thursday 15 September 2011
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I remember when I was a few years out of college thinking that I was ready to be a partner at my firm. I could do every type of analysis that was required of me, modeling was easy and, boy,...
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Posted: Friday 9 September 2011
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Yesterday Business Insider ran a video interview that we filmed a few weeks back. We cover a few topics about fundraising in the video, including how to think about the value of an early-stage company. You can check it out...
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Posted: Thursday 8 September 2011
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Nearly every software founder has or will find themselves asking for advice about how to find engineering talent. I probably get asked how to do this once a week. I was recently asked by Seth Bannon a friend of mine...
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Posted: Thursday 1 September 2011
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Conventional wisdom gets outdated. One refrain that I think might benefit from re-evaluation is ?any press is good press.? I suspect that might be a bit of rationalization created by people getting lambasted by public opinion. While an argument remains...
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Posted: Tuesday 30 August 2011
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This article initially ran on American Express OpenFORUM. Whether bringing capital into a debt or equity round you technically can have all of your investors invest in one closing (at the same time) or over numerous closings (at different times)....
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Posted: Tuesday 23 August 2011
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I had dinner with Mark Suster of GRP Partners awhile ago. During our chat we talked about viable early stage investment strategies. That topic came up again in conversation recently & our chat got me thinking. When it comes to...
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Posted: Tuesday 2 August 2011
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Posted: Tuesday 2 August 2011
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Be wary of the instant yes. While this might be a strange generalization, this pattern has become sufficiently apparent to me at this point and I felt obligated to share. ?Yes? very well may be the best word in the...
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Posted: Thursday 14 July 2011
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A few months back I posted inviting hackers in NYC to intern with me personally - help out on a few projects. I ended up working most closely with Amit Klein and wanted to give him a public thank you....
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