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As I’ve blogged about before (though quite a while ago), I spent some time at Mohr Davidow Ventures as Entrepreneur-in-Residence – for more about what that job is, read here and here. A couple years before that, I had spent some time at MDV in their Seattle office, towards the end of the dot com bubble, as an analyst/intern. Both experiences were a ton of fun, and I justified the ~3 years in venture capital where I could have been starting companies as an education that would help me later on. Now, a couple years later, I thought I would reflect a little bit on where the VC experience helped and hurt me relative to actually trying to build a startup. The net of it is that the time was mostly helpful, and a big chunk of knowledge transferred over, but it was mostly high-level stuff. A lot of running a startup involves mastering nitty gritty details, and the VC experience did nothing to help there :-) For the lazy/impatient, here are some key things I’d say where it can help: Let’s dive

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