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

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So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. I was an early investor in a company called Harmonics which ended creating Guitar Hero … that got bought by Activision and then the rest of the company got bought by MTV and they created RockBand. “. In 1996 got connected up with Softbank which was investing very aggressively in the U.S.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

So if youre new, consider not paying any attention to the rest of this post, and just diving into the archives, if you havent already. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). Im one of those people whos been programming since they can remember.

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How To Raise A $150 Million VC Fund

Feld Thoughts

I’ve been an investor in a large number of VC funds dating back to 1996, including a bunch of the current generation of seed funds. We had programs in Boulder, Seattle, Boston, and New York. We were starting to experiment with corporate partners through programs like Techstars Cloud, which we did with Rackspace.

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12 Questions: Meet Jeff Quigley (Canada)

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When he presented it to the rest of the team, their reaction was payment enough. I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. I find the Mac OS is just far superior and the programs run smoother. For example, just recently I did a logo for my youngest boys’ hockey team.

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12 Questions: Meet Jeff Quigley (Canada)

crowdSPRING Blog

When he presented it to the rest of the team, their reaction was payment enough. I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. I find the Mac OS is just far superior and the programs run smoother. For example, just recently I did a logo for my youngest boys’ hockey team.

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My first business partner, Raj Choudhury

Jeff Hilimire

that’s Raj on the left, me next to him, and our two college roommates in 1996). I met Raj in college at UNC-Charlotte in 1996. Raj would do the creative and I would do the programming. The hardest part of that, as it turns out, is walking away from Raj for the first time in 15 years. That put us on the map my friend.

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In a Strong Wind Even Turkeys Can Fly

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We worked together at Andersen Consulting between 1996-99 when the markets were booming. Investment in training, adherence to process, global knowledge sharing systems, quality control / partner reviews and campus recruitment programs that attracted the right talent. He always was. I’m only a 386 processor.&#. I love that.

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