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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

” 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. Over the next two years, I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of the company.

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Book: Sailing an Alien Sea

Feld Thoughts

I’ve known Cindy and her husband Terry Gold since 1996, shortly after I moved to Boulder. I was an early board member, then angel investor, and subsequently VC investor in Terry’s company Gold Systems. My friend Cindy Gold wrote Sailing an Alien Sea about a year ago. I read it last month and loved it.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

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. This meant that I had to either show enough revenue, or find investors who would be willing to put money into the company.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. In fact, SaaS industry revenue is projected to grow from $49 billion in 2015 to $67 billion in 2018, a compound annual growth rate of approximately eight percent. Funding Guide.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

We alsothought wed be able to sign up a lot of catalog companies, becauseselling online was a natural extension of their existing business.But in 1996 that was a hard sell. Plus he introduced us to one of the two angel investors who supplied our next round of funding. We officially launched in early 1996.

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9 Tips for Raising Startup Funds on AngelList

mashable.com

Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. This list of top angel investors is a good start.

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Busted or Confirmed? 3 Common Myths About Starting A Business

crowdSPRING Blog

The researchers found that in return, this ability caused entrepreneurs to disrupt common patterns in daily life, attracted more customers and created more revenue, causing a cycle of nuanced disruption and adaptation. Businesses do require some capital, but this doesn’t mean that every startup has to raise millions of dollars in seed money.