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Last Exit Wall Street: 7 Considerations When Raising Venture Capital

From the Venture Trenches

Yet despite his ability to raise over $1 billion of private equity and to build an organization that is worth $5 billion as of this writing, Mason was shown the door. Filed under: Entrepreneurs , Founders , Fund Raising , Startup , Venture Capital , Wall Street Tagged: Anthem Venture Partners , Private equity , Ron Conway , Venture capital.

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Interview with Ramit Varma, Revolution Prep

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My brother is actually at Anthem Ventures, working with Bill Woodward, and I was an intern there in business school. Over 12 months, until we were generating enough dollars of cash flow, we basically used that credit to write ourselves convenience checks, so we could pay our rent, pay for materials, and for those sort of things.