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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). We never invested in anything together, but after I moved to Boulder, I got a call from Charley one day in early 1996.

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The Age of Entrepreneurship

Startup Professionals Musings

The 55-64 age bracket exhibited the highest rate of entrepreneurial activity every year from 1996 to 2008, while the 20-34 bracket actually had the lowest rate. This last point is illustrated by the chart below. ##### Today's guest blog is by Akira Hirai, the founder of Cayenne Consulting.

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12 Questions: Meet Jeff Quigley (Canada)

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In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. It was loaded with Corel Draw 1, I think.

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12 Questions: Meet Jeff Quigley (Canada)

crowdSPRING Blog

In our 12 Questions blog series, we feature interviews with someone from the crowdSPRING community. For these interviews, we pick people who add value to our community – in the blog, in the forums, in the projects. I finally was able to buy my first Mac in 1996 and I never turned back. It was loaded with Corel Draw 1, I think.

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Compensating a consultant at start-up phase

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Tim Berrys Blog. Up and Running Blog. Affiliate Program. Copyright ©1996-2011 Palo Alto Software, Inc. Start a Business. Business Plan Software. Sales and Marketing Software. Email Management. UK Business Plan Software. More Business Software. Contact Us. Compensating a consultant at start-up phase. by Tim Berry.

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Sunday Morning With the Wayback Machine

Feld Thoughts

So – I decided to go down a website memory lane trip for Intensity Ventures (my personal investment company), SOFTBANK Technology Ventures (my first VC firm), and Flatiron Partners (Fred Wilson and Jerry Colonna’s first VC firm, which was an affiliate of SOFTBANK).

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11 Digital Marketing “Crimes Against Humanity”

Occam's Razor

Why not keep sending emails / spending on AdWords / running affiliate programs / buying display only on MSN. Not having a vibrant, engaging, non-pimpy blog. Having a vibrant blog does not mean not being on Twitter or Facebook (or every other place your customers congregate). We hate change. Super lame! then shut it.

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