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

Both Sides of the Table

It’s interesting that the question is pitch deck’s being obsolete versus business plans being obsolete. So very few investors want Business Plans any more. One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999. On the Startup Visa Program.

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Smooth-Stone Changes Name to Calxeda; Adds Hires

Austin Startup

At Calxeda, Freund will lead strategic market planning, market requirements, positioning, launches and market development efforts to support Calxeda’s business plans. Before that, Baughman was with Marvell and Intel, joining the latter after nine years at Dialogic Corporation, which was acquired by Intel in mid 1999.

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

Both Sides of the Table

I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. We have also been very busy with our next release, which is due out by December 11th (but I’ll save that for a different post). I look forward to the next phase of our business. I had kept a personal blog for more than a year and was new at keeping a professional blog.

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New Book by Professor Mannie Manhong Liu and Pascal Levensohn– Venture Capital: Theory and Practice, published by the University of International Business and Economics Press, Beijing

Pascal's View

This textbook combines the strength of my Silicon Valley experiences as a venture capitalist and Mannie’s research as a professor, and it will help strengthen Chinese college-education programs in this particular field. Venture Capital started in China in 1985, when the first government-sponsored venture capital firm was established.

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Waves of technology platforms

Startup Lessons Learned

I was building a new startup in 1999, and wanted to do it right. Some combination of the dot-com crash and a just terrible business plan prevented us from having to take our scalability problems to the next level. for Harvard Business Revie. I had heard that all great companies built their applications on Oracle.

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Should You Share Equity with Consultants?

www.inc.com

Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. International® keeps businesses moving with the Turn-in-Three program. All about the business of Big Data. Email address: Home.

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The REAL Story Behind Growthink

Growthink Blog

A lot of folks think of me as the business plan guy. And if I'm the business plan guy, when I started my company Growthink, you would think I would have spent a lot of time writing my business plan. You would think I would have developed a comprehensive marketing plan. back to August 1999.