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

Both Sides of the Table

In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content. This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 A deep dive into the Foundry Group investment philosophy including an interesting discussion of their investing Themes. “… our lens is: Internet Software Companies anywhere in the U.S. was starting.

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LinkedIn: The Series A Fundraising Story ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

This also appears as a guest post at Fortune’s Term Sheet. At the end of the process, which ran into the fall of 2003, we received term sheets from two firms and had a third which expressed interest in participating though not leading the round. We three partners are working hard. May 26, 2011. It was a $4.7M

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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I had previously raised VC in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2005. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. The managing partner of the firm called me the next day. That changed very quickly.

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How to Fund a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

November 2005 Venture funding works like gears. I wassurprised recently when I realized that all the worst problems wefaced in our startup were due not to competitors, but investors.Dealing with competitors was easy by comparison. Your natural tendency when an investor says yes willbe to relax and go back to writing code.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

We spent six months fundraising only to walk away once we had a term sheet in hand because we realized we were making enough money to sustain and grow the business on our own terms. What I have learned is that we need to do a thorough SWOT analysis not only on the market opportunity, but also on our partners.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

VC Cafe highlights everything you need to know from hosting your code in hackathons to open source legal docs. Hundreds of startups featured since 2005, will yours be next? s the new way to code, and quite easy to learn. You can write back end code in javascript, one language conquers all! Code Igniter.