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FEBRUARY 27, 2011
Floodgate / Information Arbitrage do “big data&# amongst other things), or Founder Collective (consumer & ad-tech knowledge of people like Chris Dixon) or geography (Founder Collective is in Boston / NY, Rincon is the best early-stage in Southern California). What about “angel&# investors? Domain knowledge.
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APRIL 13, 2011
So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. We just finished the second year in Boston. So I was on the front line of this very aggressive rollup and I got involved in helping with the technical due diligence…”. “As One of the successful investments was a company called Nigenisis, which ended becoming a public company in 1999.
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JANUARY 21, 2010
They get together with a few buddies, bounce around ideas, build some code (sometimes internally, sometimes through contractors), start talking to potential angel investors and then register their company. Local : many entrepreneurs like to use their old friend from Boston even though they’re now living in Boulder.
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NOVEMBER 15, 2014
Think about Facebook had it stayed in Boston. But I’ll bet the Boston community would take 50% of the success of Facebook built locally. “If I were starting now, I would have stayed in Boston. ” Boston is still a great tech hub. I went to see several LP funds in Boston. It’s true.
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JUNE 23, 2016
He started his career at Insight Venture Partners in New York (another firm we work closely with) and then spun out with a group of people to create OpenView Venture Partners in Boston. He also was an angel investor in Oculus, who was bought by Facebook for $2 billion.
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