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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

I was living in Boulder at this point, but traveling continuously to Boston, New York, San Francisco, and Seattle where I was making most of my investments. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. Do you want to help out?”

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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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How Top Venture Capitalists Create (and Sometimes Destroy) Portfolio Company Value

David Teten

Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996. Mr. Kalghatgi was Founder and Fund-Manager of Partner 6 Investment Group, a micro hedge fund in Boston, and then joined the founding team of Localytics, a mobile application analytics provider.

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The IPO Market: Is Larry Bird Walking Through that Door?

Growthink Blog

Since the Internet bubble burst in 2001, the number of IPOs hasn’t recovered to even 1980s levels. Or, in hard numbers from 1990 to 1996, 1,272 U.S. Let’s call this the Boston Celtics phenomenon. How bad is it? That's 30 years ago, folks. By 2010, that percentage had declined to a mere 3%. companies went public.

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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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Terry Time at the NVCA

Seeing Both Sides

Terry co-founded Polaris in 1996 after seven years as a VC at Burr Egan.  4)      Boston.   With 14 teaching hospitals and world-class research and entrepreneurship factories like MIT and Harvard, Boston has arguably emerged as the top life sciences start-up environment.