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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. Following are two examples from my own life. This took our relationship to a new level.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Lindzon has more than 20 years experience in the financial community acting in both an entrepreneurial and investing capacity.

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Invest in Israel Newsletter September 2010 Edition

VC Cafe

The magazine’s “Central Banker Report Card,” which has been published annually since 1994, grades Central Bank governors of 30 key countries, and the ECB, according to an “A” to “F” scale for their performance and success in areas such as inflation control, economic growth goals, currency stability and interest rate management.

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How Does A Small Company Make A Big Company Successful?

Feld Thoughts

When I started investing in 1994, I was involved with a few large companies. For a short time I was connected into GE via their acquisition of AmeriData (I still have my GE business card with the “ meatball logo ” on it.) That we were building an ecosystem.

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RIP Len Fassler

Feld Thoughts

It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993. When I started making angel investments in 1994, Len invested alongside me in many companies, including NetGenesis, Harmonix, and Oblong. Len and I ended up working together on many things over the past 27 years.

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Moving To Homer, Alaska

Feld Thoughts

By the end of 1994 I had a staff job, reporting to the co-chairmen of AmeriData where I travelled all over the US helping with acquisitions and generally causing trouble. We were living in Boston at the time. I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. And just hanging out as we get ready to head to Homer on Monday.

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We Were Right – Just a Decade Early

Feld Thoughts

” Jerry was Fred Wilson ‘s partner at Flatiron Partners. 1985 – 1994 was the initial entrepreneurial Grind. This is a line my friend Jerry Colonna uses when something like the AT&T – Time Warner deal occurs. As time passes, the line has shifted to “We were right – just fifteen years early.”

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