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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” There are five key risks in any deal: Market, Product (a/k/a technology), Management, Business Model, and Capital. This isn’t true. Some worked; some did not.