Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2016

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. We also believe that we’ll get more clarity on what the next platform will be.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 19, 2019

James Dondero has lived in Dallas since 1994. Recently, he partnered with the former CEO off the Woodall Rodgers Park Foundation, Linda Owen. The gifts he bestows for these organizations come from the philanthropic arm of his firm, which they call the Highland Dallas Foundation, Inc. Like James Dondero, Ms.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

1994 – present. Based on his track record, by 2008 he was able to found ff Venture Capital , an institutional angel investment firm (where I am a Partner). Average Angel Returns Over Time. Time Period. Total Investments. Exited Investments. Band of Angels Website FAQ. Sohl: “The Angel Investor Market in 2011: The Recovery Continues”.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 4, 2018

My partner Jason is leading the judging panel, which includes: Abby Barlow, partner and director of Investment Research at Crestone Capital. Anthony Shontz, managing director of Private Equity at Partners Group. It’s happening at the Boulder Theater from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm and is open to the public.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 29, 2015

When I started investing in 1994, I was involved with a few large companies. For over a decade, I heard and made happy talk from two directions – that of the investor in a startup and that of the partner of a big company that was looking to work with startups. That we were building an ecosystem.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Take a look around and unearth these kinds of tools in your current workplace architecture, or find partners, vendors and solutions that can help you push these initiatives forward and integrate them into your business today. If you adopt the future of work today, the business of tomorrow will be far more effective and profitable.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I wasn’t able to make it to Boston yesterday for the Angel Boot Camp as I was running around NYC with the CEO of a company I invested in last week introducing him to a bunch of potential customers and partners. For context, I’ve made over 75 direct angel investments primarily in two time periods – 1994-1996 and 2006-2007.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2021

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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Berkonomics

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Original 1994 book. The one warning: avoid those looking to become partners, asking for larger portions of equity than, say, 5% when they contribute no cash to the enterprise. were ultimately sold at a tremendous profit.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 9, 2021

Recently, Jeff Bezos announced that he would be stepping down as CEO of Amazon, the iconic blitzscaling company that he has led since 1994 – nearly 27 years. There is no standard CEO/executive chair relationship; each pair needs to organically arrive at the specific way they partner.

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Leadership Technical Review Cofounder Later Stage 42

Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. In the new world, winning CIOs will partner with CEOs to design state-of-the-art communication infrastructures designed to optimize any company’s most important resource—its people. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

Romania 77

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 77

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 23, 2016

” 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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Merger Stock Internet America 70

YoungUpstarts

JUNE 12, 2017

I remember back in 1994 when a friend asked if I’d like to buy a domain name. I’m not a domain investor myself, but, after spending 10 years in Internet marketing working for companies like Expedia and Partner Fusion, a leading marketing and technology incubator, I’ve seen many signs pointing to the value of new exact-match domains.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2012

A few months later Mahendra send me and my partner Seth Levine an early draft of the book. I was deep into writing Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and VC with one of my other partners – Jason Mendelson – and it was neat to see how Mahendra’s book complimented ours. We each gave him a bunch of feedback.

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Venture Capital Exit Strategy Angel Investor Deal Structure 136

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

This year, SmartHealth partnered with Rosalind Franklin University to set plans to build a $50 million, four-story, 100,000 square foot Biotech Innovation Park. Lake County Partners estimates the first phase of the project will create 498 jobs and have an annual economic impact of $117 million.

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Ben's Blog

AUGUST 28, 2012

A review of the technology press in 1993 and 1994 reveals that almost nobody believed the Internet would be important. In the new world, winning CIOs will partner with CEOs to design state-of-the-art communication infrastructures designed to optimize any company’s most important resource—its people. Marc released Mosaic in 1993.

Romania 44

Romania Software Review Cloud Mobile 44

VC Adventure

JANUARY 27, 2014

We first met in 1994 when I was a chairman of NetGenesis. I know two of Jerry’s three partners in this endeavor and think Sam Elmore and Ali Schultz are dynamite. This year I’m going to be attending as a special guest and participating throughout the four day program.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 23, 2014

Doing so might seem like a great way to keep your relationship with your negotiating partner positive, but the approach can actually backfire, causing you both to settle for the first plausible solution that improves everyone’s position. As you begin to hone your negotiating skills, you might be tempted to seek out “win-win” solutions.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

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. While we have a home in Homer, where we will be for the next three weeks, we still call Boulder, Colorado our home. But we came very close to moving to Homer in 1995.

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thebarefootvc

DECEMBER 16, 2011

This was the year that the promise of technology to truly change the world and empower individuals (the reason I entered the tech world in 1994) reached global scale. But even more exciting is when I see inflection points of adoption — which is why 2011 was a particularly exhilirating year for me.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

But before Foundry Group, my partners and I were involved in many seed investments, both at Mobius Venture Capital. I have three partners and all of us are involved in all of our investments. For context, about 25% of the investments we make at Foundry Group are seed investments. Million Round From Google Ventures.

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thebarefootvc

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

That conference reminded me of the first time I logged into the Internet in 1994 – I literally got goosebumps thinking of how revolutionary the technology could be. I bought my first bitcoins after Mt. Gox imploded and China first shut down bitcoin exchanges in April 2014, when the price hovered around $400.

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Venture Capital China Global Early Stage 49

The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

Founded in 2005 by Aaron Levie (CEO) and Dylan Smith (CFO), Box provides a secure content sharing platform where content can be shared internally and externally, accessed through iPad, iPhone, Android and Windows Phone applications, among others, and extended to partner applications such as Google Apps, NetSuite and Salesforce.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 21, 2010

Last week SimpleGeo and their partner ? When I started investing in companies that were building Web apps in 1994, it was once again all HTML / source code and examples everywhere. Stamen Design jointly released a project they have been working on together called Polymaps.

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Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

APRIL 20, 2011

“Know what you want – and get it&# - Sushmita Sen, Miss.Universe, 1994 ‘Take what you want, and pay for it’ says God - Old Spanish proverb The Secret Of Success I’m going to tell you a little story. It’s about a man who wanted to know the secret of success, and decided to find out from a Guru.

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David Teten

JANUARY 10, 2012

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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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 24, 2015

They met and married in China in 1994. Corporate Partners. They met and married in China in 1994. Kristina@MikeMichalowicz.com Mike@MikeMichalowicz.com Show Links Adam Smith LinkedIn Jonathan Domsky Facebook Website: www.kidorable.com Corporate Partners Nextiva - VOIP phone providers for small businesses.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

tech industry since 1994, when he started as an engineer at video game company Activision. Visit our Partners: USA WEEKEND. "I want the people working for me to have the ability to network with other folks from the tech scene when they go out for coffee or lunch," he says. Scott Lahman has been working in the L.A. USA TODAY Topics.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

In 1994, the smartest guys in the financial trading and academic world got together to start Long Term Capital. Hell, Microsoft was the same way in the mid-to-late 90s and as time goes by I hear that they are becoming a bit friendlier to startups and partners. I guess that is what happens when you get your ass whooped by a newcomer.

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Duct Tape Marketing

OCTOBER 27, 2022

So reading, thinking, always growing, applying ideas from different fields, different disciplines, different books, that was sort of the secret sauce that helped fuel Amazon's strategy and align teams from 1994 all the way to today. They still use the very same metaphors and strategies that Bazos put in place decades ago.

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Seattle Silicon Valley Conversion Naming 63

Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

So I've been on boards, you know, going back to 1994 was my first board shortly after I sold my first company. We had three founders and it was myself, my partner and my dad and we were the board, but I joined a private company board in 94. Although I would say most of my research has been living it. Yeah, yeah.

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Mike Michalowicz

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

She began investing in real estate in 1994 by forming a small syndicate to purchase tax liens at auction. million in private capital from debt partners to fund hundreds of deals. Corporate Partners. Since that modest start, she’s closed more than 600 transactions as an investor, broker, lender, syndicator and advisor.

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Syndicate Syndication Private Equity Equity 60

Mike Michalowicz

DECEMBER 28, 2015

Shields has been training in the martial arts since 1994 and has racked up some pretty nice accomplishments during this time. Corporate Partners. Shields has been training in the martial arts since 1994 and has racked up some pretty nice accomplishments during this time. Take advantage of automated systems! Show Links.

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VC Cafe

OCTOBER 7, 2010

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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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Well, Heidi (who designs accessories), my partner and I both work from home so its normally me that gets up first and makes the tea. Great site for getting a colour palette together.

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crowdSPRING Blog

APRIL 6, 2010

We also arrived at a rather pivotal and pertinent time in South African history, just after President Nelson Mandela was brought into power in 1994. Well, Heidi (who designs accessories), my partner and I both work from home so its normally me that gets up first and makes the tea. Great site for getting a colour palette together.

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South Africa Africa Design Community 67