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

Both Sides of the Table

“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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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." government. This 15-20 year prospecting, as a general rule, requires a long-term investment strategy by the government.

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

Both Sides of the Table

Let’s review all of our existing investments. Companies raised too much money in 2005-08 and had high burn rates. Not just tech companies but industrials, too. I’ll bet many of them did a review of their “investment pace&# as in – how quickly should we be investing. Yesterday was a Monday.

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