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Welcome to The Frontier – An Ode To Startups

Feld Thoughts

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. I spent a year on the Dean campaign Web Team during the presidential campaign of 2004. Barack Obama would not be president today without the path the Dean web team blazed.

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VC Evolution: Physician, Scale Thyself.

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One of the earliest and most well-known of the Micro-VC funds was First Round Capital , founded in 2004 by Josh Kopelman , a former entrepreneur who sold Half.com to eBay in 2000. One other firm that doesn’t always get a lot of popular acclaim but has a ton of operational expertise & widely global reach is Rocket Internet.

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crowdSPRING Community Gives Back – MagazineLiteracy.org

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The organization’s mission: The Magazine Publishers Family Literacy Project (MagazineLiteracy.org) is the first and only global, magazine industry-wide literacy campaign for children and families. MagazineLiteracy.org is an innovative effort to help families and at-risk kids.

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April 4-Innovation in Private Company Liquidity-Online Merger Markets, Social Media, Secondary Markets, Non-US Markets, Private Equity, and the Disappearing IPO

David Teten

Prior to AxialMarket, Peter held positions in private equity at SFW Capital Partners and was part of the founding team at Gerson Lehrman Group, where he helped build the firm’s dominant global marketplace for on-demand business expertise. a leading-edge research and development lab in the Millennium Technology Ventures portfolio.

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28 Entrepreneurs Discuss Why they Started Their Businesses

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Today, crowdSPRING is the world’s #1 online marketplace for creative services ranging from graphic, web and industrial design to copywriting services. For creatives, it is a global stage for creativity where title and experience don’t matter. Thanks to Kent Lewis, Anvil Media. #4 4 – Meaningful and Unique.

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In Silicon Valley, Founders Fight for Control

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As a registered user of The Wall Street Journal Online, you will be able to: Setup and manage your portfolio. ignited the current trend by adopting a dual-class voting structure before its IPO in 2004. Web Designer (Req. WSJ Web Slice. LINKS TO ACTUAL PAGE CONTAINING WEB SLICE FUNCTIONALITY. Global Support.

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The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail

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His findings are based on data from more than 2,000 companies that received venture funding, generally at least $1 million, from 2004 through 2010. He also combed the portfolios of VC firms and talked to people at start-ups, he says. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif.,