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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. I often get asked how I ended up becoming a venture capitalist.

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CU Boulder’s New Venture Challenge 10th Anniversary

Feld Thoughts

My partner Jason is leading the judging panel, which includes: Abby Barlow, partner and director of Investment Research at Crestone Capital. Anthony Shontz, managing director of Private Equity at Partners Group. It’s happening at the Boulder Theater from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm and is open to the public.

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Moving To Homer, Alaska

Feld Thoughts

I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. After selling my first company, I’d invested as an angel investor in a bunch of companies, was a non-executive Chairman / co-founder of a few, and had lots of ideas for new things to do. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995.

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Do More Faster in PE Hub

Feld Thoughts

By 1987 I had a partner, a mentor (my father) and a company that was capitalized with $10. We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business. Yes, 10 dollars.) entrepreneurial community, which was vibrant but small.