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You may regard your VC as a partner. Good! Just be aware that the VC may think of you as cannon fodder. To hear them tell it, venture capitalists aren't too different from entrepreneurs.

Are you wasting time courting customers that don't have budgets or venture capitalists that don't have any money?

Partner Bruce Gibney talks about what's hot, Facebook, and why Monday morning meetings aren't necessary. Founders Fund , investors in Facebook and Space X, last week announced it had raised $625 million for its fourth fund, larger than the first three funds combined.

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The new fund is helping supermarkets open in poor neighborhoods, funding farmer's markets in others, and even offering money for innovative food solutions that no one has thought of yet. Walmart recently announced a plan to bring hundreds of stores to fresh-food-starved "food deserts" across the U.S., but the just-announced California FreshWorks Fund has a more localized--though still ambitious--goal: to bring healthy food to underserved communities and to galvanize local economies in the process. We had the chance to talk to NCB Capital Impact, the national community development financial institution that's administering the fund, about who gets the cash and why