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Gil Penchina
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Your
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Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start.
Gil Penchina
Best
Way
Best Way
Begets
Momentum
Start
Crypto today is a libertarian paradise. If you send your money to the wrong place, it's gone. If you send it to a merchant and don't receive the goods, you have no recourse. This is cash. Treat it as such.
Gil Penchina
Today
You
Money
Treat
Paradise
Gone
Libertarian
Cash
Recourse
Merchant
Wrong
Wrong Place
Goods
Crypto
Send
Place
Your
Receive
Now you can create your own Q&A site and be recognized as an expert on any topic you're passionate about in a way that is fast and easier than starting a new website.
Gil Penchina
Website
You
Own
Way
Topic
Easier
Recognized
About
New
Passionate
Than
Site
Any
Expert
Create
Your
Now
Fast
Starting
Whether someone wants to learn the words to a new Lady Gaga song they heard on the radio or to verify the lyrics to 'Blinded by the Light', the LyricWiki community delivers.
Gil Penchina
Song
Words
Light
Community
Lyrics
Someone
New
Learn
Blinded
Verify
Heard
Lady
Lady Gaga
Wants
Gaga
Whether
Radio
It is obvious that the Internet has become such a video-driven entity. With broadband becoming ubiquitous, viewers and advertisers are looking for professional-quality videos.
Gil Penchina
Videos
Internet
Looking
Become
Broadband
Entity
Obvious
Advertiser
Becoming
Viewers
I've been lucky enough to be involved in a number of great startups, including eBay and Wikia as an entrepreneur and LinkedIn and Paypal as an investor.
Gil Penchina
Great
Entrepreneur
Startups
Enough
Investor
Involved
Been
LinkedIn
PayPal
Lucky
Including
Number
Along the way, I learned the key to launching a company. It's all about storytelling.
Gil Penchina
Key
Way
Launching
About
Along
Learned
Storytelling
Company
When I first started as an angel investor, I was excited to start investing in startups - but I didn't know much. I couldn't tell the good ones from the bad; I didn't understand all these venture capital terms, so I would invest somewhat blindly.
Gil Penchina
Good
Angel
First
Blindly
Startups
Tell
Bad
Would
Good Ones
Somewhat
Invest
Investing
Excited
Investor
Know
Terms
Venture
Venture Capital
Understand
Capital
Much
Start
Started
Any ICO going forward that doesn't use a 'Ticketmaster-style' queueing engine is clearly trying to ruin the ecosystem.
Gil Penchina
Ruin
Clearly
Ecosystem
Trying
Any
Going
ICO
Use
Engine
Forward
While seed deals have gotten easy, Series A negotiations still often feel like the death of 1,000 cuts.
Gil Penchina
Death
Negotiations
Easy
Seed
Feel
Like
Deals
Gotten
Still
Often
While
Cuts
Series
All I do is talk to people, email people, take meetings with people, and do interviews. Then I work at maintaining relationships with my investors because the trust people place in me is my business model.
Gil Penchina
Work
Me
Business
Trust
People
Meetings
Relationships
Interviews
Email
Take
Investors
Maintaining
Talk
Because
Model
Place
Then
Business Model
You're under tremendous pressure, and everyone needs you to be perfect all the time, and that often creates a perverse incentive to not tell the truth. Please remember - when you get caught not telling the truth, it's over.
Gil Penchina
Truth
Time
Needs
You
Remember
Pressure
Tremendous
Everyone
Please
Tell
Telling
Telling The Truth
Perfect
Over
Caught
Get
Often
Creates
Incentive
Perverse
A mistake I've made is investing in my idea rather than the entrepreneur's. Sometimes I'm excited about an idea that is similar to the entrepreneur's idea - but not the same. A smart entrepreneur will convince me it is the same, until I write a check!
Gil Penchina
Me
Mistake
Sometimes
Entrepreneur
Smart
Will
Made
About
Similar
Rather
Write
Investing
Excited
Idea
Check
Until
Than
Same
Convince
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