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The Long Arc of A CEO / Investor Friendship

Feld Thoughts

I wrote the very long story in a post titled Return Path Acquires Netcreations in 2004. We’ve done two together – New York and Idaho. This post has a ton of Return Path history in it in case you want to go back in time 20 years. I’m proud to have been involved in all of these companies with Matt.

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 But what if you live in, say, Idaho and you have a great idea for a new company? And for the same amount of money you will probably get higher quality people onboard in Idaho.”.

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 But what if you live in, say, Idaho and you have a great idea for a new company? And for the same amount of money you will probably get higher quality people onboard in Idaho.”

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Want Your Startup to Succeed? Stay Home

ReadWriteStart

It looked at data from 13,166 Danish startups founded between 1995 to 2004 and discovered that companies launched by founders with an average tenure of 6.4 But what if you live in, say, Idaho and you have a great idea for a new company? And for the same amount of money you will probably get higher quality people onboard in Idaho.”.

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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. Mr. Dreymann moved his family from Israel in 2004 after co-founding Goodmail in Mountain View, Calif., "Were just getting more light on the entrepreneurial process," he says. Comcast Corp.,