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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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Remember Long Term Capital?

BeyondVC

In 1994, the smartest guys in the financial trading and academic world got together to start Long Term Capital. It used proprietary computer driven models (think sexy algorithms) to find miniscule misprincings in markets and would use leverage and derivatives to exploit those mispricings. And the hedge fund performed spectacularly.

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Uber’s New BHAG: UberPool

abovethecrowd.com

In their seminal 1994 book Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies , Jim Collins and Jerry Poras coined the term BHAG (pronounced BEE-hag) — an acronym that stands for “ B ig H airy A udacious G oal.” “Can you take me Higher? To a place where blind men see . Can you take me Higher? .