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Seven Reasons to Become a Founding Entrepreneur ? AGILEVC

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1) Creating an Organization from the Ground Up - Picking co-founders and then later hiring other great folks is always tough, but founding entrepreneurs get to choose their colleagues and together create an organization and culture of their own.

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The Rise & Fall of Great Venture Firms [Part 1] ? AGILEVC

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The names of these once great, now defunct firms may not be terribly familiar today but here are just a few examples: American Research & Development [Boston] –> Founded by George Doriot and depending how you count it, either the first or second formal VC firm in the US.