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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

Shortly after that VC investment, the VCs hired a new “professional” CEO who lasted less than a year before being replaced by a CEO who then did a great job building the company. ” One of the VCs I overlapped with while in Boston was Charley Lax. Informal enough for me to play around with it for a while.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs (2018)

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of VC funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Las Vegas sets itself apart from startup cities like Boston and San Francisco by offering a much lower cost of living in a major city.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Las Vegas sets itself apart from startup cities like Boston and San Francisco by offering a much lower cost of living in a major city.

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10 Best Cities in the United States for Startups and Entrepreneurs

crowdSPRING Blog

Despite repeated efforts, only a few cities outside the Valley (New York and Boston) have historically had the critical mix of funding, network, and talent to fuel vibrant startup centers. Las Vegas sets itself apart from startup cities like Boston and San Francisco by offering a much lower cost of living in a major city.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I also made several trips to New York & Boston. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors.

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Embrace Losing – It Will Make You Stronger

Both Sides of the Table

I also made several trips to New York & Boston. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition. They hired a consultant to help them with the review. It just so happened that the consultant they hired to chose a software vendor worked for a company that had owned one of our competitors.

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How VCs Think About Adding New Partners

Both Sides of the Table

People often ask me what VCs look for when we hire partners and many have asked how to become VCs themselves one day. Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles. We didn’t hire a recruiting firm – it was always going to come from our network.

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