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My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist

Feld Thoughts

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). Amy likes to remind me that when I was an entrepreneur, I used to regularly give talks at MIT about entrepreneurship. .”

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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 Mark Sadaka, Sadaka Law ! #26-

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

Feld Thoughts

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. Each of these relationships are long term ones – Len and I since 1993 and Charlie and I since I was born in 1965. Following are two examples from my own life.

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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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You Don’t Need To Be An Engineering Genius To Start A Billion-Dollar Company

ReadWriteStart

Nearly 10 years ago, Excite founder Joe Kraus, now an investor at Google Ventures, declared “there has never been a better time to be an entrepreneur.” ” As a result, “More people can and will be entrepreneurs than ever before” because “a lot more people can raise $100,000 than raise $3,000,000.”

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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. In Dan Rather’s book he talks about Ruth Bader Ginsberg who was appointed the the Supreme Court in 1993.

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Entrepreneurship for the 99%

Steve Blank

million) of the 15 million net new jobs created between 1993 and 2009. Alex is a successful serial entrepreneur –with the same drive and energy of many we have known here in Silicon Valley, but different. The reality is that the United States is still a nation of small businesses. of the ~6 million companies in the U.S.