Learning From Failures: IMVU Founder Will Harvey (Part 6)

SM: What did you do after There.com? WH: After I left There.com I started IMVU. I was determined to not make the same mistakes again.

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group (Part 5)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Brad: And then we look at the actual entrepreneurs behind the product, and we do that in concert. I don’t actually think you can really evaluate a product effectively without using it or having interactions with the entrepreneurs so, we tend to lump those two together.

Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Ho Nam, General Partner, Altos Ventures (Part 1)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold This is the sixteenth interview in our series on seed financing for entrepreneurs. I am talking to Ho Nam, general partner at Altos Ventures, a first-stage venture capital firm, based in Menlo Park, Silicon Valley. Irina: Hi, Ho. Why don’t you start with your background? Ho: I

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Thought Leaders In Cloud Computing: Mark Settle, CIO Of BMC (Part 5)

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Learning From Failures: IMVU Founder Will Harvey (Part 5)

SM: Who were your investors at There.com? WH: The first couple of rounds were angel rounds. The first official investors were Black Diamond Capital Partners, which is a small private institutional fund. Sutter Hill Venture Partners was the first major VC.

Roundtable Recap: August 5 – Paying Customers =>Validation =>Valuation

This week’s roundtable had some very interesting businesses. Three out of the five that presented are going to be featured on the 1M/1M Incubation Radar shortly, and a fourth will be featured on Deal Radar. Here’s a brief recap, before we do the comprehensive profiles on them. First up was Avinash Gavande for Hospitality Star,

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Seed Capital From Angel Investors: Brad Feld, Managing Director, Foundry Group (Part 4)

By guest authors Irina Patterson and Candice Arnold Irina: How do you spend time with the entrepreneurs? Brad: They come to us and we go to them; we spend a lot of time together. I think it’s really us developing that relationship with them. We made an investment recently in a company called Sifteo, I’m

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