Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.” However, there were some things in it that didn’t ring true for me. This isn’t correct either.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2012
In the fall of 2010 Mahendra Ramsinghani reached out to me by email about a new book he was working on called The Business of Venture Capital: Insights from Leading Practitioners on the Art of Raising a Fund, Deal Structuring, Value Creation, and Exit Strategies. ” The book is expensive, but if you are a VC, you can afford it.
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Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). The post My First Experience As A Venture Capitalist appeared first on Feld Thoughts. An accidental one.
Feld Thoughts
SEPTEMBER 26, 2014
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. In 2000, I invested via Mobius Venture Capital in The Feld Group and joined the board.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 29, 2015
When I started investing in 1994, I was involved with a few large companies. By the time I co-founded what became Mobius Venture Capital, Softbank (our sponsor – at the time we were called Softbank Venture Capital) was the key investor in Yahoo, E*trade, and a number of other large US-based Internet companies.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 28, 2014
Between 1994 and 1996 I made 40 angel investments with the money I made from the sale of my first company. Entrepreneurship cycles investing Venture Capital' I remember in 2007 when the idea of a super angel appeared, where successful entrepreneurs were suddenly angel investors making 10 or more seed investments a year.
Feld Thoughts
NOVEMBER 30, 2016
They walked me through multiple origin stories, including how I started making angel investments (1994), the origin of Mobius / Softbank Venture Capital (1996-1997), the origin of Foundry Group (2007), and the creation of Foundry Group Next (2015-2016).
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