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This Week in VC: Michael Montgomery (President, Montgomery & Co.)

Both Sides of the Table

Venture Financing. Founded by James Reinhart out of Harvard Business School (semi finalist in annual business plan competition). million from Trinity Ventures, Founder Collective, Highline Ventures, NextNew Ventures. Woot was one of the first one-per-day item sales site with a humorous and not always PC content.

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Interview with Adam Lieber, Webtide

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Adam also had a stint at Mission Ventures, and ran worldwide sales for open source middleware at IBM. I don't have a long sales cycle, because I'm talking to people who have already chosen Jetty. I also worked in sales groups for Websphere, and bootstrapped Webtide--all right in a row.

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