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Can You Trust Any vc's Under 40?

Steve Blank

3) invest in and take equity stakes in exchange for capital. For the next four or five years, technology M&A boomed, growing from 50 in 2003 to 450 in 2006. A serious study here: [link] concluded that younger people being more creative is a highly predictable at the aggregate level.

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From Nothing To Something. How To Get There.

techcrunch.com

Tony P great, though meebo’s place as a “successful&# start up is still open to debate – from consumer IM aggregator to white label IM, still not making big $$. However, my two initial co-founders were not technical and couldn’t contribute significantly during the initial year plus of development.