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A Venture Capital History Perspective From Jack Tankersley

Feld Thoughts

In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response.

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Getting out of the building…by staying in the building!

Steve Blank

But a new class of life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space is another. A new life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space. It looks like someone is actually pulling this together in a life science/healthcare co-working and collaboration space in Chicago called MATTER. It Takes a Village.

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MentorMob.com Aims To Revolutionize Learning Through Crowdsourcing

YoungUpstarts

“The Internet is the first place most people turn to find information and learn virtually anything, but there’s no sense of organization — you have to stumble through, often running into dead ends along the way,” says Kris Chinosorn, who started MentorMob with fellow University of Illinois graduate and co-founder Vince Leung. “At

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Hazards of Hiring

www.ericsink.com

Many venture-capital-funded companies work this way. The decision was primarily being driven by myself and one of my co-workers named Mary. If you are the founder or "chief geek" in your small ISV, take a careful, honest, and objective look at yourself. We interviewed several candidates. But hiring is about probabilities.

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

online.wsj.com

SIGNIFICANCE PROMINENT. --> The Venture Capital Secret: 3 Out of 4 Start-Ups Fail. An entrepreneur with a hot technology and venture-capital funding becomes a billionaire in his 20s. The National Venture Capital Association estimates that 25% to 30% of venture-backed businesses fail. NAME David Cowan.