1996 Angel Investor Hiring Technology 
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
.” 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. Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. And it’s been very interesting since that point back in 1996.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
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. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2021
Shots on Goal Being great as a startup technology investor of course requires a lot of things to come together: You need to have strong insights into where technology markets are heading and where value in the future will be created and sustained You need be perfect with your market timing. On Funding?—?Shots
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2011
In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. and Half.com. Investing Strategy.
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 Technology leadership and innovation knows no bounds.
BeyondVC
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. Our goal was to be the best first check partner for enterprise founders, bringing the value add of a VC firm while moving with the speed and conviction of an angel investor.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. Its not what people learn in classes at MIT and Stanford that has made technology companiesspring up around them. In a technology startup, which most startups are, the foundersshould include technical people. This doesnt work well.
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