Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2014

We recently funded Blinkfire Analytics using our FG Angels Syndicate. The CEO and founder, Steve Olechowski , was co-founder / COO of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. So, we were psyched he was willing to do an FG Angels Syndicate with us. Angel Investing angellist blinkfire fg angels syndicate'

Syndicate 148

Syndicate Syndication Cap Table Due Diligence 148

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 19, 2010

Founded in November 2007 in New York City by Alexis Maybank and Kevin Ryan (co-founder of DoubleClick); CEO is Susan Lyne (ex-CEO Marta Stewart Living Omnimedia) Revenue estimates: $50mm in 2008; $170mm in 2009 (versus budget of $150mm); $450mm forecasted for 2010. Founded in 2007. Time will tell. Employees: 20.

Partner 240

Partner New York City Cofounder Syndicate 240

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. 166M round closed Dec 2007. Series A Preferred. round closed in June 2004.

Pre-Money Valuation 113

Pre-Money Valuation Liquidation Preference Dividend Common Stock 113

Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Co-founder discontent. Reference checking is to confirm or disprove a strong, positive intuition you already have about founders that could lead to an investment or a pass.

Cofounder 374

Cofounder Syndicate Syndication Early Stage 374

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Main July 11, 2007 The Different CTO Roles I was putting together a short panel presentation on the roleof a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Syndicate Syndication 40

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the years immediately prior to the popularity of institutional seed investing (I’m using a time frame of 2002 – 2007), the early-stage financing landscape looked similar to the first segment of the chart. I used 2007 as the marker to delineate this, but the trend probably started a bit sooner.). technical co-founder).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Early Stage Cofounder Finance 120

Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

This is true not just for entirely new product categories like tablets, but even existing ones… smartphones had been around for 5+ years before the first gen iPhone launched in 2007 (remember Palm Treos and the original Blackberry phones?). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndicate Syndication 124