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"From the bestselling authors of The Fifth Era, Corporate Innovation in the Fifth Era and Blockchain Competitive Advantage comes a new book full of practical wisdom for investors and entrepreneurs from 50 leading Silicon Valley angels and venture capitalists Contributions from more than 50 of Silicon Valley's leading backers of early stage companies: What they have learned about early stage investing The secrets they wish they had known before they got started The wisdom and advice they want to share with you. Review Quotes ""There are a million reasons to say no - to get to yes, successful early stage investing requires judgment based on diligence, intellectual rigor, and being able to be rationally optimistic.""ASHEEM CHANDNA, VC, Greylock Partners ""The future is up to you. Anything is possible.""TIM DRAPER, VC, Draper Associates ""Go on the adventure with people you want to be with - and make sure you are wildly passionate about your mission.""LINDA JENKINSON, Entrepreneur, Board Member & Incubator Leader ""It is better to be lucky than to be smart. But even to be lucky you have to be in the right place at the right time with the right people/team to realize that luck.""GREG KIDD, Investor: Twitter, Square, Ripple, GlobalID, HardYaka ""Investing in early stage startups is investing in the world you want to live in.""VICTORIA PETTIBONE, VC and Angel Investor, Astia ""Don't do it for financial return...do this because it has the promise of big returns while also being socially useful and, most of all, fun!""IAN SOBIESKI, Angel Investor, Band of Angels ""Do NOT let your successes or failures define you. They are the outcome of your work, they are not YOU.""MAGDALENA YESIL, VC, Angel Investor, first investor in Salesforce"

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Matthew Le Merle is co-founder and Managing Partner of Fifth Era and of Keiretsu Capital-the most active early stage venture investors in the world. Matthew grew up in England before living most of his life in Silicon Valley where he raised his five children with his wife, Alison Davis. Today he splits his time between the United States and the UK. By day he is an investor in technology companies, manages Blockchain Coinvestors, and is a bestselling author and speaker on innovation, investing and the future. In his spare time, he enjoys reading, writing and photography. He was educated at Christ Church, Oxford and Stanford University and is an adjunct professor at Singularity U. For more information, go to www.matthewlemerle.com. Alison Davis is co-founder of Fifth Era. She is an experienced corporate executive, public company board director, an active investor in growth companies and a bestselling author on the topics of technology and innovation. Currently she serves on the boards of Collibra, Fiserv, and Silicon Valley Bank, and chairs the advisory board of Blockchain Capital. She was CFO at BGI (Blackrock), managing partner at Belvedere Capital, and a strategy consultant at McKinsey and A.T. Kearney. Alison has degrees from Cambridge (MA/BA) and Stanford (MBA). She was born in Sheffield, England, and has lived for the last 25 years in the San Francisco Bay Area where she raised her family with her husband, Matthew C. Le Merle. For more information, go to www. alisondavis.com.

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