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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). Feld Technologies was acquired in November 1993. Venture Capital fred wilson seth godin yoyodyne'

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Whose Life are You Going to Change?

Both Sides of the Table

If you’re a pure startup and haven’t raised any money – you might change the life of every person you hire. You can also spend time with a newer startup helping them navigate the world of product management, venture capital or team building. Sure, you can get away with less, but why? He asked for nothing.

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They Can’t Kill You And They Can’t Eat You

Feld Thoughts

In addition to my role as co-chairman of Interliant (Len was my co-chairman), I was also a partner at Mobius Venture Capital, sitting on over 25 boards, including five non-US companies. Since I’d first met Len in the spring of 1993, he was beloved by almost everyone around him. billion market cap) in the spring of 2000.

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

ReadWriteStart

” Furthermore, he wrote, “back in 1993 we had to buy and continue to pay for maintenance on everything we needed just to build our service—operating systems, compilers, web servers, application servers, databases. .” ” Developers Don’t Get Cheaper.

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Why Female Founder Office Hours is So Important

Both Sides of the Table

Since our industry has been so heavily dominated by male leadership in both tech and venture capital for so long, this “inclusion” is something that would benefit us all in making better decisions. In Dan Rather’s book he talks about Ruth Bader Ginsberg who was appointed the the Supreme Court in 1993.

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7 Ways to Terrorize Your Competition

Growthink Blog

One of my favorite movie lines, which I think about often, comes from the 1993 movie Rudy. Hire Right As you grow your business, the less "doing" (e.g., So your success will be put into the hands of those you hire. Spend the time to hire right and to train them well. Yet, this happens all the time in our businesses.

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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. If so, then this is true…for you at least.