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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

In the late 90’s he saw the internet boom and helped start IronPlanet.com, a construction equipment marketplace that is nearing an IPO. In 2002 after exiting his second company he was attracted to the variety of being a VC. At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble.

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Evolution of a Founder: Lessons I have learned

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I don’t think we as busy professionals and Internet junkies know how to sit still and self-reflect. 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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