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

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In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. Brad’s start in Venture Capital. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So

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LinkedIn's Series B Pitch to Greylock: Pitch Advice for Entrepreneurs

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What I’ve honorably been able to do, however, is share the deck I used to pitch LinkedIn to Greylock for a Series B investment back in 2004. the consumer internet landscape in 2004 vs. today. In 2004, the consumer internet was just beginning to rebound. In 2004, investors regained interest in the consumer internet again.

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The Guy Who Took on Google (and now LinkedIn): Mike Yavonditte

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AdSonar’s advertising platform applied proprietary semantic algorithms to automatically serve the most relevant ads to each particular content page. They sold in December 2007, but he started selling Quigo in 2004. When Overture made a “half-hearted” attempt to acquire Quigo for $10 Million, Mike said ‘no thanks’.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Both hardware (such as sensors that interact with the environment to collect data) and software (the algorithms that are able to intelligently interact with humans or other machines) have become more sophisticated. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor

Seeing Both Sides

The company agreed to be acquired by Expedia/IAC in 2004 for $210 million in cash, a huge win for all, particularly given their amazing capital efficiency: they had only raised $4 million in venture capital. With these adjustments, TripAdvisor grew rapidly and successfully.

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The Humanity of Our AI Future

thebarefootvc

Roomba vacuums, launched in 2004, are an example. Both hardware (such as sensors that interact with the environment to collect data) and software (the algorithms that are able to intelligently interact with humans or other machines) have become more sophisticated. We’ve been using simplistic robots for years, often without knowing it.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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Fun does not include ERP or accounting or any other algorithmically non interesting character shuffling or dynamically generated SQL queries, so that you can collect micropayments from already broke teens. Basically, any Algorithm-able person cannot be a bad programmer. Its the algorithms, logic and organization that are important.

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