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Reboot 2022 Q4 Leadership Bootcamp

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Regular readers of this blog know about my long-time (back to 1996) friendship with Reboot co-founder and CEO Jerry Colonna. Registration is open for the 2022 Q4 Leadership Bootcamp , which is happening in Boulder, Colorado, on Nov 10-13, 2022. What you may not know is that several years ago, Jerry and his partner Ali Schultz moved exactly 0.8

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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

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We never invested in anything together, but after I moved to Boulder, I got a call from Charley one day in early 1996. And it’s been very interesting since that point back in 1996. I was one of the most prolific Internet angel investors in Boston at this point (1994 – 1995) so our paths crossed periodically.

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A Sad and Scary Day In Boulder

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The King Soopers was the one that Amy and I shopped at from 1996 – 2014 when we lived in Eldorado Canyon. Amy and I are safe. So are our friends and family. But 10 people in Boulder, including one police officer, are dead. I’ve been there hundreds of times. It was at the six-mile mark of my ten-mile run to town.

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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

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Howard Diamond, a close friend and entrepreneur I’ve worked with since 1996 (now the CEO of MobileDay ), regularly criticized me as been too trusting, too willing to see the good in people, and too patient with people. ” For the first decade of my investing experience, I made a lot of mistakes on this dimension.

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How To Predict The Future

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Here’s an example using two personal computers, one from 1996 and one from 2011. Also, I chose a 1996 Toshiba Portege 300CT for a sanity check: if I project the trend between the Apple //e and Portege forward, my Droid should be about 1 cubic inch, not 6. Step 1: Calculate the annual increase.

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The Formula

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I have no idea what he’s done between 2000 and 2012 – he didn’t go into it, but he used his 1996 – 2000 experience to explain why his new business was going to be great. He described his new business in the words of his last successful business, which exited in 2000.

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The Best Time To Invest In Something Is …

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” Fred is one of my closest friends in the VC business and someone I’ve learned an amazing amount from him since first meeting him in 1996 when he was just starting to work with one of my male soulmates Jerry Colonna. Just don’t forget the phrase “and – you have to believe in it and know why.”

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