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My Commencement Speech?—?Life at Your Crossroads

Both Sides of the Table

My dad was an immigrant from Colombia. So you need to build a network even outside of your company. After just 4 years I become managing partner of what is now the largest venture capital fund in Los Angeles. Developing an audience gives you a bigger network, bigger knowledge and more power to get ahead.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

Both Sides of the Table

He grew up in Colombia, South America. And my specialty was computer networks. So I joined this group called Network Solutions, we did computer networking, the predecessor to the internet. So then when I wanted to go into venture capital, they said, “You can’t do that, you need to be in EIR.”

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Invest in Israel Newsletter June 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

In the business-efficiency category, Israel scored very high in availability of skilled labor, finance skills, entrepreneurship of managers and venture capital. Openreach, which was created in 2006 to give communications providers equal access to Britain’s local access network, plans to invest a further 1 billion pounds ($1.51