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Praying to the God of Valuation

Both Sides of the Table

The browser and thus the WWW and the first Internet businesses were born circa 1994–95 and there was a golden period where anything seemed possible. There was no money train. It was 1991. There were startups and a software industry but barely. We still loved every moment. People were building.

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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). Charley was a partner at a firm called VIMAC and was looking at some Internet stuff. Do you want to help out?”

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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. The company was decimated by the collapse of the Internet bubble and ultimately went bankrupt.

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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

Both Sides of the Table

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. Is that when it became big?

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28 Entrepreneurs Reveal The Entrepreneurs They Consider to be Successful

Hearpreneur

She is an author and founding partner of Y Combinator, which Lovd.com (W21) was lucky enough to be a part of as well as 3,500 other companies including Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, Coinbase, Dropbox and many others. He launched his company with his business partner, Josh Sherrell, right before the pandemic hit in 2020. 27- John Burk.

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6 Tips for Coming Up With Your Million-Dollar Business Idea

Up and Running

And we did, until the internet came on the scene a couple of years later and left us holding our floppy disks in our hands. Beth developed her own intensive curriculum and, with the help of seed money from a student, founded YogaFit® in 1994 to fill the niche. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!” My next venture didn’t fare much better.

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A Year in Review: 2016

Version One Ventures

Every 10-15 years, a major cycle reshapes the computing landscape: PC (1981), Internet (1994), Mobile (2007). But until then… … we thank our LPs, colleagues, partners, portfolio companies, friends, and followers, for their continued support this year.