Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 3)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Ho: Somebody who comes in with a fantastic-looking resume will disappoint you many times. If we think we can work with somebody, we’ll err on the side of really trying to help that person. Even if they make mistakes and we’re learning on the jobs all of

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Fred van den Bosch, CEO Of Librato (Part 6)

Fred discusses some of the interesting open entrepreneurship opportunities in the cloud, in this part of the interview.

Learning From Failures: IMVU Founder Will Harvey (Part 7)

SM: Who was your intended customer base for the 3-D characters when you set the $300 sales goal? WH: It was our parents. We figured they could not turn us down. It was not a great form of validation, but it was a good form of invalidation. We found out just how hard it was

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 2)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: What is your current source of deal flow? Ho: Most deals we get come from our network. We have several thousand people working across our different portfolio companies, so the network has grown over time; entrepreneurs we’ve worked with in the past or people who have

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group (Part 6)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: And what about your equity share and your returns? Do you have any rules about those numbers? Brad: Again, it varies dramatically. We don’t have a specific rule. Our goal is to work with entrepreneurs to build as much value as possible. Irina: What stage of

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Fred van den Bosch, CEO Of Librato (Part 5)

This part of the interview with Fred van den Bosch explores Private clouds, security in the cloud, data security, location of data in the cloud.

Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 6)

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