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

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I owe ya’ a 20 minute call (or in person next time I’m in San Diego). Yeah, that was when I changed for me…” “…there was so much positive feedback on demystifying this one element of venture capital. If you are outside internet software we are not going to invest. Brad’s start in Venture Capital.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. But have you heard of what’s going on in Cyprus, Sweden or North Carolina? What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation?

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Retro: My Favorite Blog Post on Raising VC

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On December 3rd Brad Feld wrote a one paragraph blog post titled “ Raising Venture Capital &# in which he linked to my blog. The Original Post (after the jump): Venture Capital, By Mark Suster (December 2nd, 2006). I don’t plan to write the authoritative venture capital blog, just some anecdotes.

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Startup Grind Turns the Tables on Mark Suster

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We had a finance group for all of the bank branches based in San Diego, and I wrote programs to download stuff from the mainframe so we could do analysis three days faster than they could send us the data. I did programming for the career center at UC San Diego, trying to build programs for the career center.

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How to Kick Start Your Community’s Startup Scene

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The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. Changes in the Software World & in Venture Capital. But what is it we actually DO on the Internet?

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Can You Really Build a Great Tech Firm Outside Silicon Valley?

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Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. If you are talented, of course, you can get funded in any region with enough venture capital and obviously in markets outside of the Valley it is easier to get noticed and get access.

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Rocket Science 5: Who Needs Domain Experts

Steve Blank

Think of the Microprocessor, Personal Computer, Internet, Twitter, Youtube, Facebook, Google, the iPhone. Reply Cognitive Biases, Positive Black Swan Events and Startups | Market By Numbers | San Diego | Marketing Help , on January 3, 2010 at 9:13 am Said: [.] The mistake is assuming you are a Black [.]