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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

Our premise when we started doing branded accelerators with large companies was that we’d get deep mentor involvement from execs at the company we are partnering with. Len and his partner Jerry Poch bought my first company in 1993. Following are two examples from my own life. This took our relationship to a new level.

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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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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s how Cory Van Wolvelaere changed my life: In 1993, after working at Andersen Consulting for 2.5 “Mark, I’m an Associate Partner. The only person who could carry you on his budget is the lead partner, Cory Van Wolvelaere.&#. He was a senior partner, I was a peon. He asked for nothing.

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No More MBOs

Feld Thoughts

I’ve only worked in what could be considered a “big” company for 18 months (1993 – 1995) and that was the company (AmeriData) that bought my first company (Feld Technologies). My partner Dave and I took the number, made a list of all employees, and figured out how much we were going to give each of them.

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Here’s Why We Fell in Love with Draft

Both Sides of the Table

My partner Greg Bettinelli is an avid sports fan who throughout his career has developed an expert understanding in online ticketing (at eBay has was a champion of the StubHub acquisition) and online marketing. I began playing Fantasy Football in 1993 before it was even a big thing.

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Technology, Innovation, and Modern War – Class 11 – Cyberwarfare –– Sumit Agarwal

Steve Blank

You know, in 1993, there was that old New Yorker cartoon with the dog logging onto a computer and it said, “On the Internet, no one knows you’re a dog.“ That is fine at a limited scale, when you have a small number of partners. It’s either small businesses, or individuals.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

He envisioned a means for long-distance partners and team members to stay in touch when he founded the audio-visual cloud conferencing platform Zoom in 2011. In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time. #8- Eric Yuan, Zoom. Photo Credit: Sarah Jameson.