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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. I was in it for the love of working with entrepreneurs on business problems and marveling at technology they had built. There was no money train. It was 1991.

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

In our societies and business, there’re entrepreneurs who have demonstrated exceptional personalities and demeanor to pull it through business. Here are the entrepreneurs and business owners, other entrepreneurs considered to be successful. #1- Jessica Livingston is one of the most successful entrepreneurs on the planet.

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30 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Disruptors

Hearpreneur

We asked entrepreneurs and business owners who are their favorite disruptors and here are the responses; #1- Elon Musk. One of the most important lessons entrepreneurs can learn from Dropbox is to adopt the lean start-up methodology and start. And he is not afraid to take bold bets on new technologies and business models.

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Ecommerce: How to Survive its Troughs

ReadWriteStart

This is the prime question that goes through most online retailers, entrepreneurs today. The rise of ecommerce started in 2001 – during the growth of the commercial availability of the internet in households. It’s as crucial to know standard practices that entrepreneurs sometimes tend to overlook. The Rise of Ecommerce.

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

Amy likes to remind me that when I was an entrepreneur, I used to regularly give talks at MIT about entrepreneurship. ” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. .”

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

Both Sides of the Table

My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest.

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

Feld Thoughts

The company was decimated by the collapse of the Internet bubble and ultimately went bankrupt. Charlie started his own company, The Feld Group, in 1992 , when my company (Feld Technologies) was five years old. Suddenly, Charlie and I were having peer discussions about our respective consulting businesses.