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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. It has worked out great.

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Why Startups Should Raise Money at the Top End of Normal

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Early-stage investors in technology startups are only looking for growth-oriented companies that can achieve an “exit&# someday – either via selling your company to a larger company or via an IPO. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. That’s fine.

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How to Create a Healthy Local Startup and Tech Community

This is going to be BIG.

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. You need both. New Yorkers help each other out. Angels can’t do it alone.

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Some Thoughts on Leadership Going into 2016

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They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We want to invest in early-stage technology enabled startup businesses – upfront in the funding cycle. You can’t let every team hire as many team members as they want. A Sense of Purpose.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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The Foundations of the Seattle startup community. While the costs of starting a tech company have plummeted it still does take money to hire a team, launch products and market oneself. This can have an enormous benefit to kick-starting a local startup community as it will ensure many more early-stage at-bats happen locally.

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“I guess we’ll know we’ve made it when a woman can get away with behaving like Elon Musk.” Talking With VC Ashley Mayer About Finding Your Career, Taking Box Public, And Why She’s Not Interested In Reading Yet Another Female CEO Takedown

Hunter Walker

I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. When I learned they were hiring a community manager, I threw everything I had at the interview process. Enter Box. Two additional moments stand out to me.

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Mapping The Haystack Portfolio Across The United States

Haystack

Everyone they’d want to hire here either could make a fortune at Facebook, or need a bigger salary as their rents skyrocketed. You will see the majority are in the Bay Area, and then New York City, and a bit more around LA and Seattle — and things get really scattered.