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Book: Where The Jobs Are

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While The Center For American Entrepreneurship website has a series of pages describing the issues and solutions to them , I didn’t find a crisp summary of the book on the web. Incentivize the Formation and Commitment of Angel Capital. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. They follow.

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#GivingThanks: Jerry Colonna and Naropa University

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NetGenesis had raised some money and had created three different products – net.Forms (a web form manager), net.Thread (a web threaded discussion board), and net.Analysis (a weblog analysis tool). In 2002 Jerry retired from venture capital and went on his own personal journey for meaning.

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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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New Course: Entrepreneurship, Innovation, and Public Policy

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For a number of years, my partner Jason Mendelson has been teaching an extremely popular course at CU Boulder Law School with Brad Bernthal titled Venture Capital – A 360 Degree Perspective. Our goal will be to put this up on the web as well to provide content (and potentially interaction) to a much wider community.

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Writing about SPACs

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While the web is a much noisier place in 2021 than it was in 2005, the opacity and information asymmetry around SPACs are remarkably similar to what existed 16 years ago around venture deals. us) and the entrepreneur, who did a few of these over her lifetime.

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The Industrialization of Mobile

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When we invested in NewsGator in 2004 , RSS was just starting to emerge as a protocol and wire up much of the content on the web. 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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Why I Recommend Writing For At Least An Hour A Day

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but earlier this year decided to stop writing for other web sites , at least for a while, as it had become a burden with all the other writing that I’m doing. My partner Jason Mendelson and I even churned out a series on venture capital financing. Magazine invited me to write a quarterly article for them for both Inc.

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