Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
Along the way, a number of the companies I had invested in as an angel investor raised money from VCs. Some were tough experiences for me, like NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I made. We never invested in anything together, but after I moved to Boulder, I got a call from Charley one day in early 1996.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 13, 2011
So I was an Angel investor from 1994 to 1996. I was an early investor in a company called Harmonics which ended creating Guitar Hero … that got bought by Activision and then the rest of the company got bought by MTV and they created RockBand. “. And then was hired by Stephen Spielberg for Minority Report.
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Both Sides of the Table
JUNE 27, 2021
They sold 2 years later for $16 million In the financial crisis of 2008 we had a company that had jointly hired lawyers to consider a bankruptcy and also pursued (and achieved!) Many angels I know have signed over more than their comfort level in just 12 months and then feel stuck. the sale of the company for $1 billion.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 20, 2011
Infonautics went public in 1996 and Half.com was sold to eBay in 2000. Josh and Howard began co-investing as angels and in 2005 they started a $10 million fund. Howard states the most successful angel investors are the ones who can place many small bets, increasing the possibility of hitting a home run. and Half.com.
mashable.com
NOVEMBER 2, 2011
Joshua Baer is the co-founder and CEO of Otherinbox , a prolific angel investor and the director of Capital Factory , Austin’s seed-stage incubator. He founded SKYLIST in 1996 from his college dorm room at Carnegie Mellon, and created UnsubCentral in 2004. This list of top angel investors is a good start.
K9 Ventures
SEPTEMBER 24, 2009
In December 1996, while I was still a student in the Master of Software Engineering program at Carnegie Mellon, I got bit hard by the entrepreneurial bug. in December 1996, while on a student visa. I hired my TA as my first employee and paid him $12.50 I always knew that I would someday start my own company.
BeyondVC
NOVEMBER 17, 2016
This is a story about starting an enterprise seed fund called Boldstart in 2010 and our journey in enterprise since 1996. Our goal was to be the best first check partner for enterprise founders, bringing the value add of a VC firm while moving with the speed and conviction of an angel investor.
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