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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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Hear how the Lean Startup began — and helped one company find success: Episode 2 on Sirius XM Channel 111: Eric Ries and Jon Sebastiani

Steve Blank

Eric Ries co-founded Catalyst Recruiting while attending Yale, and continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com. He later co-founded and served as CTO of IMVU and then authored The Lean Startup. He was named entrepreneur-in-residence at Harvard Business School in 2010 and is currently an IDEO Fellow.

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Walker Twitter Highlights: January 16th – 22nd

Scott Edward Walker

Cheers, Scott Top 5 Tweets Software Engineering Salaries in Silicon Valley bit.ly/zJpyHd zLmdx7 “We pitched investors 348 times before getting a ‘yes’ from Walden Venture Capital in March 2004.” If you’d like to see all of my tweets (or an RSS feed of them), you can do so here.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

500hats.com

TL:DR : This post aims to recap significant changes in the venture capital industry over the past ten years, and then make some [biased] predictions as to major forces at play in the next five years. However, all three shifts are related and can be summed up simply as: Geeks are Taking Over Venture Capital.

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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. A former engineer, Rob was a great writer and a thoughtful student of management. Datto is an R&D company at heart, and the plan is to double the size of the Backupify engineering team, and accelerate our vision of supporting all your cloud apps.

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Seizing the Moment: Why Experts Believe Now is the Golden Opportunity for Investing in Israel

VC Cafe

Since I’ve started writing about Israeli startups in 2004, there has never been any event like October 7 and the war that followed. Kooply , a game development engine in stealth, was of the 20 winners of the 2024 Game Changers list by Lightspeed Ventures. It can now be used to track players in official games.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

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Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Spread through word-of-mouth as the company has no sales team, all engineers. Current round: $90mm led by The Founders Fund, including Youniversity Ventures, Glynn Capital, Ulu Ventures, Jeremy Stoppleman, Ben Ling, +. Competitors: Skype. Total raised: $22mm.