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Does a VCs Culture Really Matter? The Upfront Story

Both Sides of the Table

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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How and Why To Be an Angel Investor

David Teten

Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2010: A Market on the Rebound”. 1961- 1996. Based on his track record, by 2008 he was able to found ff Venture Capital , an institutional angel investment firm (where I am a Partner). Total Investments. Exited Investments. 1994 – present. Band of Angels Website FAQ. approx 1999-07.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

In 2010, I started building a software that analyzed why websites ranked highly on Google’s SERP. When I started Idea Grove in 2005, most PR firms had names like law firms – the name of the firm was the name of the owner or partners. 21- Communicate creativity. Photo Credit: Scott Baradell. I didn’t want that.

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What is the right age to found a company?

Lightspeed Venture Partners

Dane Stangler of the Kauffman Foundation studied American firms founded in 1996-2007. The Kauffman Foundation’s most recent study of start-ups discovered that people aged 55 to 64 accounted for nearly 23% of new entrepreneurs in 2010, compared with under 15% in 1996.

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Suggestions for Angel Investors

Feld Thoughts

I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. On the eve of the graduation of the TechStars Boston 2010 class, I thought I’d weigh in with some additional advice to anyone who either is or wants to be an angel investor.

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Iron Tribe Fitness – From A Garage To A Thriving Business

YoungUpstarts

Forrest Walden officially the first Iron Tribe Fitness facility in 2010. “I have been in the fitness industry since 1996 and honestly can’t imagine doing anything else,” Walden laughs. It wasn’t long before people were lining up outside waiting to sign up and join in. In 2011 it saw US$1.1

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Book: The Business of Venture Capital

Feld Thoughts

In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. I made a pile of intros and didn’t think much more of it.