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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. In 2003 one of their first investments was Qiigo, Mike Yavondite’s company. They aggregate other people’s content and curate it into categories. Mark and Richard go on to talk about platforms, timing, and simple reiterative product design.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

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I had been writing GigaOM (the blog) since December 2001, but in 2003, I started working on a piece for Business 2.0 In the early days, my belief was that blogs (or as I called them micro-pubs back in 2002) would grow really fast and it would allow me to aggregate large subsets of audiences around specific niches.

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