Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2017

We are excited to announce that Chris Moody is joining Foundry Group as a partner. When we started Foundry Group in 2006, we were very clear that we were not going to build a legacy venture capital firm; one meant to outlive its founders. For a while, the only name on the list was Lindel’s. Welcome, Chris!

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 28, 2022

She is an author and founding partner of Y Combinator, which Lovd.com (W21) was lucky enough to be a part of as well as 3,500 other companies including Airbnb, Instacart, DoorDash, Coinbase, Dropbox and many others. Karp is the founder of Tumblr, a social media website all about creativity and self-expression. 1- Jessica Livingston.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 22, 2011

I recently spoke at the Founder Showcase at the request of Adeo Ressi. I said that at the Founder Showcase, too. It’s like people arguing that there’s a beautiful beach house in 2006 that represents great long-term value due to scarcity of similar property. some founders lose their life savings.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 19, 2009

On December 2nd, 2006 I wrote the blog post published later in this post when I was CEO of startup Koral about my experiences in pitching VCs. I had really positive experiences such as working with Greg Gretsch at Sigma Partners where he championed us to a partners’ meeting where we sort of got crucified. Tempus Fugit.

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Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 29, 2009

This should not be confused with raising too much money as many companies did in 2006-08. But imagine a VC that did 12 deals per year in 2006, 2007 & 2008. No doubt they spent countless hours arguing for reduced burn rates sometimes with founders, sometimes with investors. So we have almost no triage problem.

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View from Seed

DECEMBER 4, 2019

The trends described above in VC performance have an upstream effect on Limited Partners which is somewhat counter-intuitive. In looking at the data, it’s interesting to note that the TVPI for funds from 2002-2006 is pretty weak. This data seems to line up with the narrative I’m hearing on the ground. . LP Constraints.

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VC Adventure

JANUARY 19, 2024

Over the course of Foundry, we deliberately structured our work in a way that reflected this goal, keeping our organization small and each of the Foundry partners closer to the portfolio (both the companies each of us was responsible for, but also across the portfolio more broadly). It was, and continues to be, an amazing journey.

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Agile VC

APRIL 17, 2011

Kayak was started here in my backyard of Boston… co-founder & CTO Paul English and the product/engineering team is based here in Concord MA. Co-founder & CEO Steve Hafner and the business team are based in Norwalk, CT. Led by General Catalyst with participation by co-founders Steve Hafner & Paul English.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2015

At the same time, his partner at his previous company – Tim Miller – was doing an entrepreneur-in-residence at a local Boulder VC firm (Boulder Ventures). Tim Miller (CEO) and Ryan Martens (CTO, founder) have been working together from the start of the journey. Million To The Boulder Community after their IPO.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Partner with a defined contribution software provider. Partnering with a defined contribution provider can solve these challenges. Health insurance brokers partner with defined contribution software providers to increase their book of business. He is also the founder of six companies including the two largest U.S.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 11, 2021

A network of friends and partners can also serve as a great assurance and reminder that you’re not walking. First and foremost, my brother had cerebral palsy and died in 2006 while I, on the other hand, have good health and a fully functioning body so I have no reason to complain and more than enough motivation to pursue my passion.

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ConversionXL

JANUARY 18, 2022

At a startup, this can be as simple as defining why the founder started the company in the first place. CXL’s founder, Peep Laja, has a specific “reason why” his company Wynter exists. Your founders and the leadership team represent your brand offline, so why not do the same thing online? Twitter followers. Image source.

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The Equity Kicker

JULY 1, 2019

Between 2006 and 2016, I wrote something on this blog almost every working day. We were now three years in at Forward Partners and it was increasingly obvious that the team here should be writing rather than me. It was a huge effort but I loved it. As of last summer, I stopped blogging all together.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 3, 2010

We had Farb Nivi , who is the founder & CEO of Grockit , a website that enables online group learning. Farb is the founder & CEO of Grockit.com. Current round: $3.35mm in Series A by TomorrowVentures (Eric Schmidt’s personal investment vehicle), Saban Ventures, Founder Collective, SK Telecom Ventures. LibreDigital.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

According to Fortune , in 2006, female founders were involved in only 2.95 Teams of male and female founders and the implication for team composition. Obviously, startup teams aren’t always comprised of all men or all women; teams of mixed gender founders exist, and some of them get funding. 33 billion in venture funding.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2013

Henrik Werdelin , the Managing Partner of Prehype , a venture development firm based in New York City that has helped build companies like Tradable , Barkbox , FancyHands , Basno and Path , says recreating Twitter isn’t necessarily difficult, but the layered features will take time to get right. 1) Twitter. 3) Facebook. 6) Pinterest.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

This time frame – 2005/2006 – web 2.0 And especially if you are dealing with early stage firms where partners might have different areas of specialization but they might have a lot of connective tissue across things. and one of the founders of Oblong, John Underkoffler, was an MIT Medialab PHd., was starting.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 16, 2011

She is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of Small Business Trends , an award-winning online publication. Anita Campbell Anita Campbell serves as CEO of Anita Campbell Associates Ltd, a woman-owned consulting firm helping companies and organizations reach the small business market.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 13, 2014

One recent development has been that larger companies are now looking at small innovative companies in a new light — as potential partners in developing new products, processes and services. Vuzit was launched in 2006, but in its first few years, did not bring in sufficient business to sustain itself. A Case in Point.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

While my most visible role is as chair of National Center for Women & Information Technology (NCWIT) since its inception in 2006, I’ve tried to be actively involved and supportive of as many initiatives as I can. The program is industry-agnostic, but startups need to have some level of traction.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So in this post, I present the epilogue to The New Venture Landscape that highlights my take on what I think the venture landscape looks like today and what the implications are for founders, for GPs and for LPs. Implications for Founders. Too many founders still think that. The Epilogue. Seed is the New A. Well, yes they do.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 4, 2019

The first is from David Rubenstein (Carlyle Group co-founder – one of Blackstone’s competitors) in 2006. Blackstone’s partners, though, had decidedly mixed feelings about the bonanza. It was indeed private equity’s moment. They began to worry that the market was overheating.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 20, 2012

“By donating contraceptives and promoting sexual education across the globe, we aim to put an end to the spread of sexually transmitted infections and improve sexual health overall,” says Cory Capoccia, founder of Conscious Contraceptives.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

She is also the co-founder, co-owner and CEO of MFE Interactive in addition to being the co-owner and SVP of Marketing for Speedy Incorporation.

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Dave Kerpen, founder and CEO of Likeable Local , just published an interview with me on Linkedin, which I’ve included below. Based on his track record, by 2008 he was able to found ff Venture Capital , an institutional angel investment firm (where I am a Partner). It’s also a fast way to lose all your money.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 17, 2011

Janine Popick Janine Popick is the CEO and co-founder of VerticalResponse (Inc. 5000 2006-2010), a leading self-service direct marketing provider to over 100,000 small businesses. Read all five posts in today’s series and come back each day this week for five new posts in this great educational series and another chance to win.

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Steve Blank

MAY 13, 2015

My guests this week on Bay Area Ventures on Wharton Business Radio on SiriusXM Channel 111 were: Kathryn Gould co-founder of Foundation Capital. Mar Hershenson co-founder of the VC firm Pejman Mar Ventures. Sophie Lebrecht co-founder and CEO of Neon Labs. What did you look for in a Founder ?

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 29, 2017

It was late 2006 and I was serving old media as a national editor at an entertainment industry trade publication, plus freelancing for an alt-weekly and writing a book. My partner and I locked ourselves in a room for about 4 hours. I could do what I was doing online with my own publication, so I started Greer’s OC in July 2006.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 7, 2012

13, 2006: This distinguished Nobel Peace Prize recipient pioneered the use of microcredits through the Grameen Bank, which he established in his native Bangladesh in 1983; many for-profit and nonprofit ventures these days utilize the same concept when investing in underprivileged regions. Patrick Chukwura at Young Entrepreneurs , Sept.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Every year or so my partners and I at Foundry Group create a new company, or start a new project, that we believe had the potential to change the way something works in our world, while simultaneously helping the entrepreneurs we work with, and the entrepreneurs we aspire to work with. For example, in 2006, we co-founded Techstars.

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Babbling VC

JUNE 10, 2010

Since joining Neuhaus Partners in late 2006, I've done 6 deals directly. apprupt The apprupt founders initially launched and received funding from us for Jupidi. Nevertheless, this is one of the rarer situations where two founders found me, pestered me and eventually grew on me. Emporis This one is a bit of an outlier.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

by Charles Cridland, Co-Founder and Technical Director of YourParkingSpace. The company began from my bedroom, back in 2006. I partnered up with Harrison Woods, then-Managing Director of Primal Parking. Pick the right business partner. YourParkingSpace almost didn’t take off. Harrison is ultra-high-energy.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 17, 2020

In 2006, Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey founded Revolution Foods to help ensure quality food access for all children across the nation. Together, they founded Revolution Foods in 2006. Here's my conversation with the founders of Revolution Foods. I'm the co founder and Chief Impact Officer at Revolution Foods.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 5, 2023

With over two decades in the digital marketing industry, he established his award-winning Melbourne-based digital agency WebSavvy back in 2006, to help small businesses grow. They are a Google Premier Partner and one of only a handful of Australian agencies to be part of Google’s International Growth Program.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 27, 2017

Collectively they have $850M in capital in their most recent funds: [link] Both Silverton Partners and LiveOak Venture Partners have filed regulatory documents associated with new fundraising efforts in 2017 so we should all look forward to announcements from them on successfully raising new funds.

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The Equity Kicker

JANUARY 27, 2016

. US private tech funding 2006-2015: $258bn (real). Jon Bradford, founder of Techstars UK, once said to me that corporate innovation budgets dwarf venture capital. The excess cash from Apple from 2006-2015 was greater than US VC funding in total. — Benedict Evans (@BenedictEvans) January 27, 2016.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Twelve months into my startup journey I had four half-built websites that had been built by my four ex-technical co-founders. Finding someone to partner with isn’t easy.

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