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ProfessorVC: Baby's All Grown Up

Professor VC

I started working with the founders of iControl at the concept stage, prior to the first $100K of angel financing. ► 2010. (7). Bootstrapping 101. I am an active angel investor and on the board of Sand Hill Angels. We ended up raising $15.5M, led by John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins. ► February. (1).

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ProfessorVC: How much is enough?

Professor VC

One truth of start-up financing is that it generally takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish your milestones. I took a look back at our original financial model we presented to VCs in 2004. A talent acquisition or bootstrapping are still options, but need to include buy-in from the investors. ► 2010. (7).

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Interview with Sramana Mitra on 1M/1M Program

Life Beyond Code

Through the spring of 2010, we released four volumes of EJ books and continued to experiment with the roundtables, which became increasingly popular. Meanwhile, in January 2010 my New Year’s resolution was published. By April 2010, the One Million by One Million (1M/1M) global initiative had been formally named.