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Want to Know How First Round Capital was Started?

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In the early 80’s he left academia to work on venture capital investing with Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies. Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. He also says it is important to be able to participate in follow on rounds so as not to get “crammed down”. and Half.com.