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Mattermark – An Example of How We Decide to Invest

Feld Thoughts

When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. At some point, Seth and I had the look I referred to at the beginning of this post. He looked at me and gave me that “yeah – we should do this” look. And that was it.

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Why Small Community Lenders Have Your Back

Up and Running

Department of the Treasury oversees the CDFI program, which was established in 1994 to make capital accessible to struggling communities. Character refers to the applicant’s track record for paying bills on time. Conditions refers to how the funds will be used as well as economic and industry factors that could impact the loan.

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Mentors 6/18: The Best Mentor Relationships Eventually Become Two-Way

Feld Thoughts

I referred to him as Uncle Charlie the other day in my post From Punch Cards to Implants. After I sold my company and started investing in companies in 1994, Charlie and I talked regularly about the Internet, which was just emerging as something that large companies should pay attention to.

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Build it and they won’t come: How and why growth hacking came to be

The Next Web

Andrew Chen said CTRs have fallen from a high of 78 percent in 1994 (via HotWire) to.05 The “hacker” element of “growth hacker” refers to the ability of an individual to solve growth-related problems, not coding ability (see Design for Hackers ). Since this change in the OpenGraph, both products have seen their traffic decline.

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What’s Old Is New Again

Feld Thoughts

Between 1994 and 1996 I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of my first company. I was referred to as an “angel investor” – I didn’t get the super angel moniker back in the 1990s, but I was often referred to as promiscuous.

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The Year of Startups Everywhere

Feld Thoughts

I’ve asserted for a long time that Silicon Valley is a collection of startup communities, which includes San Francisco, Marin (the first board I was on – in 1994 – was for a company in San Rafael), Oakland, Redwood *, Palo Alto, Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Sunnyvale. Or maybe toss SOMA in. Or, well, does it really matter?

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The Reputational Damage of Non-Responsiveness

Feld Thoughts

Rather, I’m making an observation about something I’ve experienced – both as an entrepreneur and investor – since my first angel investment in 1994. I’m not trying to explain a new behavior. Here’s the situation, as reported this morning by an experienced CEO of a company we are investors in.