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Brad Feld Drops Knowledge. Here’s What He Said …

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“My initial desire to blog came from something that’s always been my approach to investing – I’m a nerd and I love to play with the technology and part of my approach has really been to understand things both at a user level and at a reasonably deep tentacle level. In 2004 / 2005 I was starting to get intrigued with user-generated content.

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Stock Market Drops. Then It Rallies. What Happens Next for Funding?

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Let’s review all of our existing investments. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. VCs were very active in this period. You would think it would be better for M&A to be more active when the markets are down – better prices. Not just tech companies but industrials, too.

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