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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. Suddenly I was a VC. An accidental one.

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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). You’ll note a few extra partners here.

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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. His passion today is to help entrepreneurs get their act together before they talk to investors, with a team of advisors and affiliates around the country. is inching higher.

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The Ultimate Guide to Starting a Software Company

Up and Running

Since the term “cloud computing” was coined in 1996—at least as we have come to understand its meaning—the software as a service industry has exploded. List key partners and resources you will need, and then list your core team as well as their roles. If you want a slice of the pie, there isn’t a better time to get involved.