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Congrats to Backupify! A Great Exit Story for the First Company I Ever Backed

This is going to be BIG.

I started reading a great blog called Business Pundit in 2004. We used to chat a fair amount via our respective blogs about management and entrepreneurship. Venture Capital & Technology' It was written by a guy about my age down in Louisville, Kentucky.

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This Week in VC – Scott Painter, CEO of Zag & TrueCar

Both Sides of the Table

But the most interesting is that all of his stories involved entrepreneurship. Based in Palo Alto and founded in 2004 by PayPal alumni. Tags: This Week in Venture Capital. Actually, I’ve done this! Especially fun when you get him telling stories about his pilot experiences. Competitors: Skype. Total raised: $22mm.

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Master of Customer Acquisition, Matt Coffin, On Startups …

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Selling LowerMyBills: o In 2004 he was getting a lot of call to take more money but was not interested. On Entrepreneurship: What makes a great entrepreneur? Generally entrepreneurship is not about work-life balance: you need to love it, it has to be your life and you have to devote everything to it. combination of factors –.

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Restrictions on acquisitions would stifle the US startup ecosystem, not rein in big tech

TechCrunch

Jeff Farrah is the general counsel of the National Venture Capital Association. The reality is that entrepreneurship is incredibly hard, and the journey from infancy to public company is one that relatively few companies achieve. since before the dawn of the modern venture capital industry.” Jeff Farrah.

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The Myth of the Young Startup Founder

Ian Hathaway

In February 2004, Mark Zuckerberg famously launched Facebook from his Harvard dorm room at the age of 19. Over the next eight years, Facebook would attract half a billion users and nearly $7 billion in venture capital investment, on its way to a May 2012 IPO that valued the company at more than $81 billion. Permalink.

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Investors are missing out on Black founders

TechCrunch

As the recipients of less than 1% of venture capital raise, institutionalized systems are visibly at play. When you think about the intersection of venture capital and technology, and specifically how it works — it is being led from an engineering perspective. I was in college from 2000 to 2004.

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The iconic VC-Backed founders are all White & Asian men. So why invest in diversity?

David Teten VC

What can we learn from the best 40 venture capital investments of all time? Of course, one could rebut that by saying traditional VC is all about investing in outliers: Seth Levine analyzed data from Correlation Ventures (21,000 financings from 2004-2013) and writes that “a full 65% of financings fail to return 1x capital.

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