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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 Brad’s start in Venture Capital. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. was starting.

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‘Capital Efficiency’ doesn’t exist

K9 Ventures

It comes up most commonly in cases when investors talk about how “it’s gotten cheaper to start a company these days” (particularly in the Web space), and therefore these companies don’t require a lot of capital. In fact, when starting K9 I used my own startups as an example such capital efficiency.

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‘Capital Efficiency’ doesn’t exist

K9 Ventures

It comes up most commonly in cases when investors talk about how “it’s gotten cheaper to start a company these days” (particularly in the Web space), and therefore these companies don’t require a lot of capital. In fact, when starting K9 I used my own startups as an example such capital efficiency.

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Lessons Learned: About the author

Startup Lessons Learned

He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups, and has worked as a consultant to a number of startups, companies, and venture capital firms. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). The Lean Startup Intensive is tomorrow at Web 2.0.

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Business Week Report on “Radical Future of R&D” Misses Critical Capital Markets Link in Innovation Ecosystem

Pascal's View

Unfortunately, Mr. Slywotzky makes an important assertion about venture capital that is incorrect. First, the venture capital business is contracting severely: From the April 18th, 2009 NVCA/PWC Moneytree report: “Venture capitalists invested just $3.0 ” FULL STOP.

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

David Teten

Christopher Fralic is a Managing Partner at First Round Capital’s New York office, and has focused on a number of the firm’s investments in Advertising Technology, Social Media, Ecommerce, Gaming, Mobile and more. Mr. Fralic has 25 years of technology industry experience, with significant Internet business development roles since 1996.

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