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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

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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. Venture Capital fred wilson seth godin yoyodyne'

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

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Len and his partner Jerry Poch bought my first company in 1993. In 2000, I invested via Mobius Venture Capital in The Feld Group and joined the board. Each of these relationships are long term ones – Len and I since 1993 and Charlie and I since I was born in 1965. Following are two examples from my own life.

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Are Things Moving Faster Than In 1999?

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After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. The name kind of says it all. I never once felt that things were moving slowly.

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Fair and Reasonable

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I learned this value from Len Fassler and Jerry Poch in 1993 when they acquired my first company. We were talking about a few things around a negotiation, and he said something profound. “I just want things to be fair and reasonable.” ” I loved this phrase. I had never bought, sold, or invested in anything up to that point.

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The Brilliance of The Struggle

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Here are a few examples from my first company, Feld Technologies (1987 – 1993). ” I’ve got a lot more stories like this from Feld Technologies and several other companies I co-founded, including Interliant and Email Publishing, along with long stretches of time at Mobius Venture Capital.

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They Can’t Kill You And They Can’t Eat You

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In addition to my role as co-chairman of Interliant (Len was my co-chairman), I was also a partner at Mobius Venture Capital, sitting on over 25 boards, including five non-US companies. Since I’d first met Len in the spring of 1993, he was beloved by almost everyone around him. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000.

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