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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 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. My first company (Feld Technologies) was one of the first Microsoft Solution Providers ( Dwayne Walker , are you still out there somewhere?) At the beginning I was still working for AmeriData when I started investing. That we were building an ecosystem.

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RIP Len Fassler

Feld Thoughts

Feld Technologies worked with Allcom whenever we needed a network installed for a client. Soon after, Len called me and asked if I’d be interested in selling Feld Technologies to Sage Alerting. It took a while for me and my partner Dave Jilk to decide to do it, but we closed the sale in November 1993.

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We Were Right – Just a Decade Early

Feld Thoughts

” Jerry was Fred Wilson ‘s partner at Flatiron Partners. Now, choose any new and exciting technology now. 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. Ponder where you end up.

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Moving To Homer, Alaska

Feld Thoughts

I’d sold my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1993. 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. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995. We were living in Boston at the time.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

17, on “How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology”. The first panel will focus on public markets and will discuss the use and effectiveness of social media tools and data mining technologies in harnessing the wisdom of crowds to generate investment ideas.

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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.