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We have established an annual tradition of bringing you the best early stage investing articles of the year, handpicked by our co-founders Hambleton Lord and Christopher Mirabile. As we look back on 2017, here are a few of our favorite, most interesting and informative pieces we read. We salute the authors and hope this collection provides insights to make 2018 the best year yet.
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Losing Money by Fred Wilson
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7 Lessons from 100+ Failed Startups by Anastasia Mudrova
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10 Year Project by First Round
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Male and Female Entrepreneurs Get Asked Different Questions by VCs — and It Affects How Much Funding They Get by Harvard Business Review
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Raising Venture Capital? Take a “Discount” on Your Valuation by Marc Lore
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Great Products vs. Great Businesses by Morgan Housel
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Why We Invested: VCs on What They Saw Early on in Big-Name Startups by CBInsights
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Why You Probably Won’t Invest in the Next Unicorn by Winter Mead
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Scale-up Leadership Lessons I’ve Learned Over 9 Years as HubSpot’s CEO by Brian Halligan
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Hiring, the Single Most Important Skill as a Founder by Moritz Plassnig
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Venture Capital Funnel Shows Odds of Becoming a Unicorn Are Less than 1% by CBInsights
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The Journey from $1m MRR to $2m MRR by Brad Feld
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Lose More, Win Big: The Power of High-Failure Strategies by Rob Go
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Jawbone's Demise a Case of 'Death by Overfunding' in Silicon Valley by Heather Somerville
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What Makes a Great Product Manager by Lawrence Ripsher
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4 Key Financial Metrics That All Startups Should Measure by Josiah Humphrey
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What Do Boards Actually Do? By Mark Suster
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Tech’s Damaging Myth of the Loner Genius Nerd by Claire Cain Miller
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Seeing Through The Hangover “Fog” From 2014-2015 by Semil Shah
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How to Decide with Speed and Conviction by Tomasz Tunguz
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Policies That Can 'Make Entrepreneurship Great Again' by Marianne Hudson
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