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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….”. That is a personality type.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

So if you were to use Google or any other search engine, your name would be lost in the crowd. I got an engineering degree and worked on various entrepreneurial projects but my heart was always in data science and analytics. Now that my new career is in the personal finance industry, I’m helping women tame their money.

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New Course: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy

Feld Thoughts

We’ve decided to take a crack at a cross-campus course (law, engineering, and business) that focused on contemporary issues around entrepreneurship, would be a great introduction to any student who wants to immerse herself in entrepreneurship, and would enable us to create some unique content around this topic.

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The rise of the “successful” unsustainable company

A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

Freeloader — On $3m invested, sold for $38m in 1996 — shut down in 1997. GroupOn’s engine that turned capital into revenue growth was a form of force-feeding rather than building a product). It’s not about the financing path, it’s about what you’ve decided to build. Support.com — On 2.5m

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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. I always knew that I would someday start my own company. It was only a question of when, where, and how. I formed SneakerLabs, Inc.

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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. Fralic earned his BS in Finance from Villanova University and his MBA from St. through the Yahoo! acquisition. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia.

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

Reid Hoffman

Google realized that being the way to find the world’s information was a blitzscalable market, thanks to the network effects in its AdWords revenue engine. In other words, what percentage of sales are available to pay for growth, and to reward investors for financing that growth. The third is high gross margins.