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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). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

She is an author and founding partner of Y Combinator, which Lovd.com (W21) was lucky enough to be a part of as well as 3,500 other companies including Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, Coinbase, Dropbox and many others. He launched his company with his business partner, Josh Sherrell, right before the pandemic hit in 2020. 27- John Burk.

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Using Open Source to Bootstrap Your Data Service

Feld Thoughts

Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ? When I started investing in companies that were building Web apps in 1994, it was once again all HTML / source code and examples everywhere. Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps.

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Box launches Box Accelerator as its COO reflects on working with young entrepreneurs

The Next Web

Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), Box provides a secure content sharing platform where content can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.

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