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Meet Manu Kumar, Chief Firestarter at K9 Ventures

K9 Ventures

After the acquisition of SneakerLabs, he served as the Vice-President of Interactive Technologies for E.piphany. He holds a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering with University Honors and a Masters in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University; and a Ph.D. What led you to the venture capital world?

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My story and support for the Founders Visa

K9 Ventures

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. There were a sum total of three or four “venture capital” funds in Pittsburgh at the time, and none of them had done much with this new fangled thing called the Internet.

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My 2020 Vision for Graduates: How to be Optimistic in Terrible Times

Reid Hoffman

For example, if you were paying close attention to the rise of YouTube in the mid-2000s, you would have understood it wasn’t just going to create new jobs for software engineers – but also a much larger number of new jobs in video production, advertising, entertainment, education, and more. And how do you do that?

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Guess which technology we have the least trouble with. You have a CEO that clearly hasn’t taken the time to understand a technology platform. who forms technology biases based on old Visual Basic stereotypes or shallow interpretations of. ability based on one of many technologies. March 25, 2011 at 1:36 pm.

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