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Name
Mogens Nielsen
Location
Sacramento, ca
Website
www.mogensnielsen.com
Bio
Founder of FlatLeaf. www.flatleaf.com
Entrepreneur, Systems Architect, Thinker.

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A VC raised concern regarding my lack of prior C-Level experience. I have management experience, and worked for a couple of startup prior to bootstrapping my current ventur...

Answered by Bruce Croxon – Co-founder at Lavalife.

dont know what c level means ...i was a c student...?? there are a lot of mba's working for c students like me...move on (more)

Thank you Bruce for the answer! I was really surprised too; most founders I take it are from all levels of the organizational chart and not only CEO, CTO, COO, make your own C. In any case it was another red flag regarding this VC, so thank you.

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Other than your blog, how did you attract so many users so quickly at Mint?

Answered by Aaron Patzer – Founder of Mint.com Posted in Marketing

We gave our initial beta sign ups red-carpet treatment. By the time we were ready to launch, our blog had generated about 20k email addresses of people who said they were ... (more)

Aaron, really like the approach of getting the “over-eager” adaptors to add a link on their sites. Now I just need to get more early adaptors that I can handle to use the same approach!

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If I haven't launched yet how can I provide proper forecasts for potential investors?

Answered by Mark Suster – Partner, GRP Partners

You need to show 18 months of monthly forecasts and IMO 5 years of annual (i.e. not monthly). Crazy, right? Not really. The 18 months should show how you think you'll ma... (more)

And I thought I was crazy for including a 12 month by month and 4 year projection in my business plan! Now I take it that I actually should add even more to my plan. Mark, are you not concerned that it might turn into a little too much “fantasy work” when you have that long projections?

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