Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I wasn’t able to make it to Boston yesterday for the Angel Boot Camp as I was running around NYC with the CEO of a company I invested in last week introducing him to a bunch of potential customers and partners. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. I generally made about one investment a month when I was active as an angel.

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Angel Investor Boston Due Diligence Cofounder 167

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 23, 2014

” With Mattermark , I remember the moment clearly – I was at The Kitchen in Boulder with the founders (Danielle Morrill, Kevin Morrill, and Andy Sparks) and my partner Seth. As an investor for the past 20 years, I’ve had this happen many times. And that was it. First, did I care about / have affinity for the product?

Technical Review 154

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

.“… “Then we engage with the product and the entrepreneur and because we know these areas very well we don’t have to spend a lot of time understanding the market or understanding the customer.”. So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd.,

Technical Review 288

Technical Review Venture Capital Silicon Valley Software Review 288

The Startup Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2017

With the insight, resolve, and patience he shows with young companies, he demonstrates why angel investors earn the “angel” label. Tianyi is also a co-founder of West Suburban Angels , a prominent angel investment group in the west suburbs of Chicago.

Illinois 79

Illinois Chicago Entrepreneur Cofounder 79

The Next Web

JANUARY 27, 2013

One of the things I found most valuable from participating in the Founder Institute was a lesson about the Golden Circle by Simon Sinek. Back in 1994, when Jeff Bezos started Amazon, he had to raise money from 22(!) Any investor who knew anything about books, didn’t invest. Pursue your passions: Start with the why.

Netherlands 159

Netherlands Technical Review Software Review Cofounder 159

Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

The first release is underwhelming, but they iterate aggressively, with feedback and support from some of their angel investors. The feedback is “come back when you’ve made more progress with customers.” So the new investment gets 60%, the founders get 39.9%, and the $1m of seed money gets 0.1%.

Recapitalization 70

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