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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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The Twenty Year Itch: My Last VC Investment Out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures

This is going to be BIG.

It will be the 105th deal out of Brooklyn Bridge Ventures, the firm I started back in September 2012, and it will be the last deal I’ll be making out of my third fund. It will also be my last venture capital deal. To think, I almost didn’t take that 2004 meeting because it was a NYC-based fund. No new investments.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. He met with 8 companies and got 6 term sheets, decided to take General Atlantic deal and that’s when Experian came back to buy the whole thing. Mark’s view: too much money can eliminate discipline.

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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. Less than 100 days into joining FRC after winding down my startup, I offered my friend Rob the first term sheet I ever sent out--to lead the seed round of the company I accidentally inspired with a Tweet. Venture Capital & Technology'

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Don’t drink your own Kool-Aid (surviving TC50)

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I’m not going to cover in this post the obvious post-show marketing tasks such as following up on all those business cards you grabbed, communicating with all those people who registered at your site and leveraging your new found fame to score venture capital. We had 6 term sheets in no time. We closed a $16.5

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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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Should Founders Be Allowed to Take Money off the Table?

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Ironically our business started to perform very will by 2004 but by then management had lost the dream of a huge upside. Many term sheets ensued. I had that against the backdrop of several term sheets. Tags: Pitching VCs Start-up Advice VC Industry startup technology vc venture capital.

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