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

Both Sides of the Table

Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 So we have five themes – Digital Life and Distribution are the other two.”. Distribution. Brad’s start in Venture Capital.

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Transitioning To a Mobile Centric World

abovethecrowd.com

Many will argue that there is a safe middle ground where you can “have your cake and eat it too” — the HTML5 based “mobile web.” A recent Compuware survey found that 85% of users favor apps over the mobile web. The browser-based Internet launched many new companies, several of which have achieved market capitalizations in the billions.

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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. Eric Ries, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur and author of The Lean Startup, popularized this strategy for web applications. venture capital. or even be a U.S.

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New Course: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy

Feld Thoughts

For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360 Degree Perspective. Our goal will be to put this up on the web as well to provide content (and potentially interaction) to a much wider community.

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The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

Finally, and importantly, society is better off because Amazon makes the system for distributing books (and other products) vastly more productive, freeing up resources for other value-creating investments. On the other hand, web servers are not a blitzscalable market. Today, there is no one dominant player in web servers.

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Is 2009 the year of mobile computing?

BeyondVC

  Ever since, he has been using the phone to take pictures nonstop, send emails and SMS messages, stay connected to Facebook, and surf the web looking for the latest news or directions.   More importantly, will there be any grand slam venture capital opportunities in wireless? 

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Lousy Products Might Break Your Bones – But A Name Will Seldom Hurt You

infochachkie.com

At the time of its launch, the name “cisco” was also confusingly similar to SYSCO, the $20B food distribution company. Readily Pronounceable – A name’s proper accent should be obvious, as made painfully clear in the 1996 Tom Hank’s Movie, “That Thing You Do!” Launching Venture (34). Venture Capital (7). Sales (13).

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