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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. Internet pioneers.

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Should You Really be a Startup Entrepreneur?

Both Sides of the Table

Inbound calls from partners, people who want to join, atta boys from friends. We just landed the biz dev partner we’ve been working on for 9 months. Google DID NOT just acquire our main biz dev partner. It was 2002 – the “dog days&# of the Internet and we were running out of cash. Internet pioneers.

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Books I Read On Sabbatical 2015

Feld Thoughts

This is something that each of my partners and their families also do – we rotate throughout the year and the other partners completely cover for whomever is on sabbatical. War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex : This was an important book that crushed my soul. This was a quick, fun read.

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Entrepreneurs are Everywhere Show No. 3: Frank Rimalovski and Frank Sculli

Steve Blank

The other thing that we try to make everything that we do in and of (New York). We try to bring the entrepreneurs, the investors, the venture capitalists (the entire New York startup ecosystem) into everything we do. We invest exclusively in startups founded by NYU students, faculty and researchers.

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How Private Equity Funds Are and Should Be Using Social Media

David Teten

According to Jeff Bussgang, General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, about 10-15% of the 1,000 active venture capitalists in the U.S. Fewer private equity funds are using social media for outreach, but 2xPartners , Healthpoint Capital , and MCM Capital Partners are notable exceptions.

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Out of the Crisis #26: Brian Armstrong of Coinbase on cryptocurrency, being mission-oriented, and institution building

Startup Lessons Learned

So I've been able to move to another location with my partner and another city, I should say. Why don't we just put this plan on the internet? I think it was December of 2010, and happened to just be reading that paper on the internet one day and just immediately captivated my attention. And I actually really liked doing this.

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On Going Public: SPACs, Direct Listings, Public Offerings, and Access to Private Markets

Ben's Blog

Editor’s Note: This testimony was delivered by a16z managing partner Scott Kupor to the U.S. By way of background, I am the Managing Partner for Andreessen Horowitz, a $16.5 billion multi-stage venture capital firm focused on IT-related investments… I also serve on various investment committees, including for the St.

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