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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. He was named among the World’s Top 100 Young Innovators by MIT Technology Review and received the TR100 award in 2002.

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We Were Right – Just a Decade Early

Feld Thoughts

” Jerry was Fred Wilson ‘s partner at Flatiron Partners. 2002 was the Trough of Disillusionment. 1995 – 2000 was the climb up to the Peak. 2001 – 2002 was the collapse to the Trough. This is a line my friend Jerry Colonna uses when something like the AT&T – Time Warner deal occurs.

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Moving To Homer, Alaska

Feld Thoughts

But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. We moved to Boulder in November 1995 and never looked back – it’s been amazing. The two week trips turned into three week trips and we ultimately bought a house in Homer in 2002. Nope – Amy and I aren’t moving to Homer. Life alaska anchorage homer'

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#GivingThanks: Jerry Colonna and Naropa University

Feld Thoughts

When I make a list of non-family members and non-partners who I would want to be stranded on a desert island with, Jerry is at the top of the list. I met Jerry in 1995. Jerry became partners with Fred Wilson and they started Flatiron Partners. Today’s #GivingThanks post is for my dear friend Jerry Colonna.

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Don’t Take the Little Things for Granted

Both Sides of the Table

By the summer of 1995 I was living and working in Rome, Italy. I was married July 20, 2002 when I was 34 years old. So I guess it was no big surprise that when the kids flew the coop many parents found themselves alone with partners that they no longer saw as their romantic “better halves&# and got divorced.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. You knew it all along.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. You knew it all along.