The Founders Fund
What are the best sites about The Founders Fund? We’ve started with these. What else should be here?
1. The Founders Fund - Venture captal firm focused on early-stage financing, headed by PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel. Site offers bios of the firm’s partners, information on what type of companies they’re looking to fund and what The Founders Fund brings to the table, a list of companies in their portfolio and contact info. (www.thefoundersfund.com)
2. The Founders Fund Emerges As Venture Capital 2.0 - December 13, 2006 article on The Founders Funds focuses on its tiny size within the venture capital world, but its strengths in having multiple successful entrepreneurs heading it up. (www.sfgate.com)
3. Founders Fund Hires Sean Parker as Partner, to Launch Second Fund - December 12, 2006 report on The Founders Fund hiring 27-year-old Sean Parker, who had a hand in building Napster, Plaxo and Facebook, as Managing Partner. (venturebeat.com)
4. Victims of Mike Moritz, Unite! - Article on Sean Parker joining The Founders Fund suggests that both Parker and Founders Fund head Peter Thiel were done wrong by Sequoia Capital’s Mike Moritz. (www.valleywag.com)
5. PayPal Founders Launch $50 Million VC Fund - July, 2005 article on the formation of The Founders Fund, a company started by PayPal founders Peter Thiel, Ken Lowery and Luke Nosek, which focus on early stage investments from $500,000 to $1 million. (news.com.com)

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