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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

Shortly after that VC investment, the VCs hired a new “professional” CEO who lasted less than a year before being replaced by a CEO who then did a great job building the company. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. Do you want to help out?” ” Um – ok – sure.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. was starting.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). I got my start programming on an old IBM XT; it was thanks to MUDs that I first discovered the internet. Thanks to the anonymity of the internet , I landed a few jobs, and did quite a bit of writing. Amazon PostRank

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IPO Anxiety - East Coast Version (part 1: MA)

Seeing Both Sides

I first came across Bill when he was a Wall Street analyst and covered my company Open Market (IPO 1996). For purposes of this blog post, I am only focused on companies involving technology, whether software, Internet, health care or energy – which I’ll define as members of the Innovation Economy. Boston Scientific Corp.

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Lessons Learned: Sharding for startups

Startup Lessons Learned

I just dont comment. :) Steve, The term was in active use in 1996 in the MMO world, which predates Googles founding. Expo New York New York, NY Nov 19 The Lean Startup at MIT Boston, MA Nov 20 Lunch workshop at Dogpatch Labs Boston, MA Dec 17 Lean Startup Cohort program begins San Francisco, CA KISSmetrics KISSmetrics is loading.