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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

I often get asked how I ended up becoming a venture capitalist. When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). An accidental one.

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

Our premise when we started doing branded accelerators with large companies was that we’d get deep mentor involvement from execs at the company we are partnering with. Len and his partner Jerry Poch bought my first company in 1993. In 2000, I invested via Mobius Venture Capital in The Feld Group and joined the board.

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

It’s the story of persistence in entrepreneurs. As a VC I’m acutely that a “yes&# decision to support an entrepreneur can do just that, yet I only write 2-4 of them per year and maybe another 3-4 as an angel. I try not to go out to entrepreneur events in LA every night – I have work to get done and a family.

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30 Entrepreneurs and Business Owners Explain Why They Started Their Businesses

Hearpreneur

We asked some entrepreneurs what their story is. 98% of venture capital funding goes to male-founded start-ups, leaving less than 2% for female-founded startups. As an entrepreneur, I wanted to control my work & create a platform for my creativity to thrive. Thanks to Michael Dent, What Man and Van !

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Why Female Founder Office Hours is So Important

Both Sides of the Table

The idea is simple enough: several female VC partners at top funds will hold 1-hour meetings with 40 promising female entrepreneurs looking to get advice on their business and pitch in a friendly, non-judgmental, safe environment. My partner Kara wrote a great post on the topic that you should read. we have a long way to go.

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Software Startup Myths Debunked

www.singlefounder.com

Venture capital is one method of getting a company off the ground, but it’s not the only method. Venture capital is also not a guarantee of success. Venture capitalists invest in multiple companies because they know that not all of them will succeed. Myth #3: I need a partner. Really big.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) IBM had a near death experience in 1993, and moved from a product-centric hardware company to selling a complete set of solutions and services. And venture capital and entrepreneurship has made life even tougher for the modern corporation.