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). We never invested in anything together, but after I moved to Boulder, I got a call from Charley one day in early 1996.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 11, 2016

I first met Fred in the suburbs of Boston at Yoyodyne in 1996. The post Love and Venture Capital appeared first on Feld Thoughts. - with Fred Wilson and Brad Feld which was a delightful conversation between me, Fred , and Jerry Colonna. The three of us have a 20+ year history that gives me joy every time I think about it.

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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

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.

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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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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Len and I co-founded Interliant (originally Sage Networks) with Steve Maggs and Rajat Bhargava in 1996. In addition to my role as co-chairman of Interliant (Len was my co-chairman), I was also a partner at Mobius Venture Capital, sitting on over 25 boards, including five non-US companies. I was exhausted.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 3, 2017

I’ve known and worked with Jerry since 1996. Love and Venture Capital. I now get to call him my neighbor as he moved from New York to Boulder a few years ago. If you want a taste of our relationship, I’ve written a lot about him over the years. Following are a few recent ones. The CEO Whisperer.

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