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

Both Sides of the Table

So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So

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10 lessons I learned by taking the entrepreneurial Red Pill

The Next Web

Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Any investor who knew anything about books, didn’t invest. We have the coolest angel investors in the world, but still our seed funding round (which was not even astronomically big) took us about six months to arrange. Take advantage of this.