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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. When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we knew that Seattle would be a key geography for us.

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

Feld Thoughts

This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback. When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. Before making a decision to invest, we talked to each member of our advisory board to get their feedback.

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The Paradox of VC Value-Add

Feld Thoughts

Scott Maxwell of OpenView Partners had an awesome post up this morning titled The Truth About VC Value-Add. The next person on the list of supporters is Scott Maxwell at OpenView Venture Partners. Scott and I were both on the Microsoft VC Advisory Board that Dan’l Lewin organized and ran. Or probably 83 other arguments.

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Valuing Startup Employee Options

David Teten

It’s very powerful to have a model that you can email to everyone in the firm, because then everyone sees clearly that you’re communicating the exact same message to the whole team (including outside consultants and the advisory board, if any). Vinicius Vacanti and Jim Moran of Yipit had the same experience.

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How Investors Are Increasing Their Returns Through Collaboration and Technology

David Teten

With a unique vision for starting and successfully managing innovative companies, he is the Managing Partner of Social Leverage, a holding company that invests in early stage web businesses. Mr. Parekh serves on various advisory boards of start-up internet companies. and Tweetdeck (purchased by Twitter in June 2011).

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Elephants Can Dance – Reinventing HP « Steve Blank

Steve Blank

Army Signal Corps advisory board, and the Army was going to acquire their first computer for research. Hewlett’s partner Dave Packard wanted to get into the computer business.) Instead of bemoaning the demise of an old company we should be celebrating new companies that develop new helpful technologies.

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

thestartuplawyer.com

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. I think you'll have trouble developing your idea without bringing on people, probably as co-founders.