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To Get This VC's Attention, Stop Making Spreadsheet-Based Decisions One VC explains why he backed three startups.

By Nancy Miller

This story appears in the April 2017 issue of Entrepreneur. Subscribe »

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Howard Lindzon

Howard Lindzon is an irreverent buzz machine who powers through wall-to-wall meetings on five milligrams of Adderall. A prolific blogger and serial entrepreneur (StockTwits, a Twitter for traders, is his crown jewel), Lindzon is founder and general partner at Social Leverage, an eclectic seed fund. He typically finds entrepreneurs before they find him. Here's what he likes: founders who show grit, solve problems and won't crumple in chaos. Here's what he ignores: business-news TV and spreadsheet-based decisions. His fund's average investment: about $600,000.

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