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10 of the Most Successful Investors of the Last 10 Years

The Startup Magazine

Zhitao runs Hangzhou Liaison Interactive, which is a Chinese technology-based company founded in July 2002. Holmes founded a company known as Theranos in 2003 when she was just 19 years old. Carlson founded Polychain Capital in 2016. Peter is the founder of Bay Street Capital Partners. Today, he is worth $1 billion.

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Try On The Decision For 30 Days

Feld Thoughts

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. In early 2003, I started to think about leaving Mobius. Here’s an example.

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Early Stage VCs – Be Careful Out There

Feld Thoughts

For anyone that remembers 2000-2003, this obviously ended badly. By 2002 investments at the seed level had evaporated (there were almost no seed financings happening). In many cases, these rounds were pre-vaporware – just an assertion about what business they were going to create.

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Because the Domain Makes it Really Real

This is going to be BIG.

I got my first job in venture--at GM--in February 2001. I tried to write a book for college kids in 2002-2003, couldn''t get it published, so I started blogging in February of 2004. Venture Capital & Technology' I started a business newspaper in 1998 in college covering the stock market and the economy.

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Startup Communities: Creating A Great Entrepreneurial Ecosystem In Your City

Feld Thoughts

The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). The Beginning of the Next Wave (2003 – 2011). Venture Capital Matters. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). Principals of a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community.

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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. He was introduced through mutual friends to Highland Capital. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble. How did you get into VC? (9:30 9:30 – 11:30).

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The Evolution of Entrepreneurial Education and Corporate Innovation

Steve Blank

Philip Bouchard : You’ve started teaching at Berkeley since 2002, Columbia in 2003 and at Stanford since 2011. Innovators are not entrepreneurs. Building an entrepreneurship ecosystem. How can corporations work more closely with universities? How is the way that universities teach entrepreneurship evolving? It’s a big idea.

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