Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 27, 2010

But my aspiration in college was “to get a good job.&# In 1990 that’s what I was trained to want to do – impress my parents and their friends. “VC and former entrepreneur Brad Feld also blogged about how many of his frat buddies at MIT had become successful entrepreneurs. I cleared hundreds.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 15, 2016

On September 10th of this year I spent an entire day in California State Prison with people who had committed felonies and worked with them on business plans to help them create legal enterprise upon their release as part of Defy Ventures 6-month training program. I hadn’t cried this much maybe since childhood.

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socalTECH

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

The other amazing thing, is getting access to people like David Cohen and Brad Feld. There's no formal business training to be an entrepreneur, and some of what you learn is from the ambient environment, being near people and watching people solve problems they're facing. It's really opened up an incredible number of doors.

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InfoChachkie

MAY 22, 2012

Step 1: The Person, Not The Firm – As Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson make clear in their book Venture Deals , entrepreneurs should identify specific venture partners, rather than target firms as a whole. Such follow-up are akin to a train whistle. Prep Steps.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 16, 2010

You can also have them automatically published to Twitter; in fact, I first heard about the Withings from seeing Brad Feld Tweet about it. When I trained for the London Marathon in 2003 I bought a Nike device that I put on my shoe that measured my distance and pace via my Nike watch. I’m not that public about my weight.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 21, 2010

The training becomes “adaptive.&#. Xobni’s main competitor that I know about is Gist, funded by Brad Feld at Foundry Group. Immediately monetizable because people pay for this stuff. 12.5mm in Series C. My big fear at the time was that Microsoft would just build these features themselves. What was I thinking?

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