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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. I often get asked how I ended up becoming a venture capitalist.

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Transcript of Developing Important Entrepreneurial and Leadership Qualities

Duct Tape Marketing

He is a co-founder and managing partner of Relationship Impact , a consulting firm focused on helping great leaders build great leadership teams. So my journey started, sort of my entrepreneurial journey I guess started in around 1993. So, my partner, my boss had a strong vision for what he wanted the firm to look like.

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The Trouble with Titles

David Cohen

As of today, I’m changing my title at Techstars to be “Founder and Managing Partner” and I’m dropping the “co-CEO” title. In 1993 we co-founded our first startup, Pinpoint Technologies, alongside a third co-founder, Bob Durkin who focused on sales. This lasted for a year or two and then we both become Managing Partners.

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15 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Name

Hearpreneur

When I founded the firm in 1993 management consulting companies tended to use a leverage model (the junior staff did most of the work) and projects were multi-phased often lasting months to years. They came back with several rounds of ideas and my partner and I went back and forth on ones we liked and did not like.

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10 Mom-and-Pop Businesses That Turned Into Empires

YoungUpstarts

Bikoff’s small business came about after the 1993 water contamination scare, in which he wanted to provide a sanitary and flavorful alternative to bottled spring water. In 2002, the Glacéau, line of beverages became the top-selling enhanced water brand in America and it raked in $350 million in revenues in 2006. Wrigley Company.

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21 Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Favorite Business or Entrepreneur Turnaround Story

Hearpreneur

billion in revenue annually. He envisioned a means for long-distance partners and team members to stay in touch when he founded the audio-visual cloud conferencing platform Zoom in 2011. In 1993, the company reported losses of around $8 billion, one of the most enormous company losses until that time. 8- Eric Yuan, Zoom.

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Music Entrepreneurship: Portland rap legend Cool Nutz addresses the secrets of his success

Up and Running

A rapper, tour manager and talent manager, Cool Nutz has generated a lot of buzz and revenue for himself and other local artists. You’ve been releasing albums since 1993, working with artists from all spectrums of hip-hop. For 20 years now, Terrance “Cool Nutz” Scott has called music his job. It turned into a real business.

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