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When VCs Don’t B t You

Feld Thoughts

The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran. The next person on the list of supporters is Scott Maxwell at OpenView Venture Partners.

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How to Build a Global Center of Innovation Excellence in Salzburg, Austria

Pascal's View

I recently joined the Advisory Board to Gerhard Blechinger , the Rector of the FachHochschule Salzburg, (the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences) and became a guest lecturer on Entrepreneurship at the University. Let’s not forget that Microsoft had a huge monopoly in operating systems in the 90’s.

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Cultural Revolution at Large Corporations – the Founders Return Of the companies that do reinvent themselves it’s interesting that often its the founder or an outsider that has the insight and makes the radical changes.