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Get to Know Richard de Silva of Highland Capital

Both Sides of the Table

I took the opportunity this past week to publish summary notes of some of the VCs and entrepreneurs I had interviewed on This Week in VC. How did the experience of pitching Iron Planet to investors affect you as a VC? (5:00 At the time consumer internet venture capital was still suffering from the collapse of the Tech Bubble.

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The Fantastical, Stupendous, Wonkariffic Tale of How Ample Hills Creamery Raised a $4 Million Venture Capital Round

This is going to be BIG.

I was working for the GM pension fund, an institutional LP, as an analyst, doing a research project on consumer private equity and venture capital investing. I was researching consumer focused funds, building and fixing brands, and talking to just about every consumer minded investor I could find.