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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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Top 9 Best CRMs for Small Businesses in 2019

crowdSPRING Blog

No more scrawling notes from a phone conversation on a sticky or digging through your overflowing inbox for an email. Zoho has been offering SAAS (software as a service) since 1996 and boasts a huge slate of apps. Keeping track of customer information and conversations doesn’t have to be tedious and frustrating. Need email ?

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Stock Photography vs. Real Photos: Can’t We Use Both?

ConversionXL

” You’ve also gotten that uneasy vibe they’ll invoke “the customer is always right/I can take my business elsewhare” conversation, if you push too hard. Back in 1996, Jennifer Anderson posed for a stock photo shoot shortly after graduating college. Credit for round up goes to the Idee blog.

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Why HIPAA Compliance Is Important for College Boards

Board Effect

Compliance with HIPAA laws is something that board trustees should be having conversations with their management staff about. HIPAA is a federal act that Congress passed in 1996 to help patients protect their personal and sensitive information. What Is HIPAA and Why Is It Important?

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Why High Cognitive Load Is Costing You Conversions (and How to Reduce It)

ConversionXL

As cognitive load increases, your conversion rate begins to suffer. That research was conducted all the way back in 1996. Needless to say, a site that adds to an already high cognitive load is not good for conversions. via Conversion Uplift). See if you can guess the nature of this site… Yep, that’s a blog.

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

Brad Feld (Brad is an advisor to K9) from the Foundry Group was instrumental in keeping the flame alive by posting about it on his blog ( The Founders Visa Movement ) in September. In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug.

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Why the Browser Matters

Ben's Blog

Still, since 1996, the only major change to the browser’s user experience has been the addition of tabs. In 1996, there was no social networking, no video, no search that worked, no RSS, and no Twitter to name a few. Search —Back in 1996 during the time of the last browser UI innovations, searching the Internet was very different.

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