article thumbnail

Hanging Out In Pioneer Square

Feld Thoughts

We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board. In addition to being LPs in PSL Ventures , we are major investors in PSL Studio and I’m on the board. Amy and I have a periodic conversation around what happens if one of us died unexpectedly.

Seattle 77
article thumbnail

Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

Feld Thoughts

Seth, Jason, Ryan, and I had a long conversation about it after going through the AvidXchange financing deck and monthly financial package. I expected that we’d decide to pass and set up the conversation with them this way. Before making a decision to invest, we talked to each member of our advisory board to get their feedback.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How Value Attribution Can Dramatically Help (Or Hurt) Your Chances of Raising Money

Growthink Blog

In 2007, the Washington Post conducted an incredible experiment. Conversely, if you were introduced to that same investor by someone the investor respects, than their perception of you would be great, and your chances of funding much higher. Ideally ask them to be a member of your Advisory Board. MILLION violin.

article thumbnail

Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

thestartuplawyer.com

do not think being friends or relatives reduces the need for these difficult and/or awkward conversations. View Comments lk says: October 23, 2007 at 9:56 pm the co-founders of textworks just experienced getting shafted by a co-founder! Ryan says: October 24, 2007 at 7:00 am I’m sorry to hear about that.

article thumbnail

Find and engage great mentors.

www.davidgcohen.com

October 31, 2007 By David Cohen Here?s Keep the loop going in this way and you’ll develop a positive conversation with the mentor, improve the product, and build a relationship. They engaged many of them that they respected in ongoing, meaningful, and independent conversation. Founder and CEO of TechStars.

article thumbnail

Foundry Group Next

Feld Thoughts

The conversation around AvidXchange brought to light the magnitude of the opportunity we have to invest in interesting companies outside of our early stage portfolio. We also had a long conversation about our GP fund investing strategy. He has been on our advisory board and for the past eight years has been a key advisor to us.

article thumbnail

Everything you ever wanted to know about advisors: Part 2.

venturehacks.com

If an advisor can uncork a million dollars of your company’s latent value with 15 minutes of conversation or a single introduction, you should pay him appropriately. Normal advisors are also assembled by naive entrepreneurs who think the mere presence of an advisory board will create social proof and help them raise money.