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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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Playing the Long Game in Venture Capital

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This “overnight success” was first financed in 2004. LPs Haven’t Yet Grokked the Long Game While the VC community realized 5ish years ago that short-termism in venture capital didn’t make sense and has capitalized on the scale advantages of letting companies go long, the LP community by and large hasn’t totally grokked this.

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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. Good when you’re testing and trying to learn the initial findings – is this a real business/good investor business, concept, replicable model but when you do let it go and GET BIG FAST.

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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

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This episode of This Week in Venture Capital featured Michael Montgomery, president of Montgomery & Co. You have to be selected to present and it is typically reserved for companies that have already raised early-stage capital and are well into revenue growth. Should you use investment banks to raise venture capital?

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This Week in VC with @VCMike Hirshland of Polaris Ventures

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This lasted from about 2001-2004. Since then Mike his built his career by investing in early-stage companies (seed or series A), which is remarkable given that Polaris Ventures is a $1 billion fund. Current round: $8.5mm Series-C led by Jafco Ventures with DCM , Emergence Capital, and August Capital participating.

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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. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. -Company reports 250,000 users in 49 countries with 1mm+ application downloads. Competitors: Skype. Current round: $16.5mm in Series-B. Total raised: $22mm. See: TechCrunch. Offers two products: Palantir Government and Palantir Finance.

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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. 2001-2004 were very humbling but we built a real company.