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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

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” I bootstrapped my first company and, while we did a lot of work for VCs, I liked taking money from them as “revenue” (where they paid Feld Technologies for our services) rather than as investment. Along the way, a number of the companies I had invested in as an angel investor raised money from VCs.

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Do More Faster in PE Hub

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We bootstrapped the business because we had to and by 1993, when we sold the company to a large public company, we’d built a nice, consistently profitable business. Since then, Ive been involved with creating and funding hundreds of companies both as an angel investor and a VC (now at Foundry Group). Yes, 10 dollars.)