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Two New Techstars Programs – Mobility/Detroit and Techstars++/Mayo Clinic

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Last week Techstars announced the new Techstars Mobility program, Driven by Detroit. Techstars Mobility, driven by Detroit will run for three years with a new class of 10 startups each year. I think Ted is awesome and it’s super exciting to have him join Techstars as the Managing Director of Techstars Mobility. Status quo?

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When VCs Don’t B t You

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The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. I remember a meeting with the Microsoft Mobile 6.0 team as they were pitching us their vision for Microsoft Mobile 6.5. Venture Capital fundraising VC' They ignored us.

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The Paradox of VC Value-Add

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I remember a meeting with the Microsoft Mobile 6.0 team as they were pitching us their vision for Microsoft Mobile 6.5. A year or two later they had less than 3% market share on mobile. ” Second, I went through the scale up of the organizational VC firm in the late 1990s at Mobius Venture Capital.

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Building An Autonomous and Virtual World: Softbank Teams With Mapbox

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When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big. Back in 1997, Softbank Technology Ventures (which became Mobius Venture Capital) was the first VC fund I helped raise.

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Are Things Moving Faster Than In 1999?

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After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. The name kind of says it all. I never once felt that things were moving slowly.

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Update From ADPrentice

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In between events, Mark gave a talk titled “How Does Venture Capital Work”, Sameer gave a talk titled “Business Plan 101”, and I gave a talk titled “Do You Have The Balls To Start A Company?”. After some back and forth, a handful of folks decided to mobilize another ADPrentice event for the undergraduates living in the house.

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The Industrialization of Mobile

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I am on the board of Sitrion , who just released their latest version of Sitrion ONE , which allows enterprises to deliver mobile solutions in one single day. At the time, it was impossible to anticipate how the web would evolve, as 2004 was a particularly low point in the evolution of venture capital and tech companies.

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