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Feld Thoughts
JUNE 2, 2010
I wasn’t able to make it to Boston yesterday for the Angel Boot Camp as I was running around NYC with the CEO of a company I invested in last week introducing him to a bunch of potential customers and partners. It sounds like Angel Boot Camp rocked. I generally made about one investment a month when I was active as an angel.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 3, 2012
Last night I was at Angel Boot Camp in Boston. It was a dinner for about 50 angel investors – a mix of experienced ones and new ones – organized by Jon Pierce. A few of us (including me) gave short talks and there was a long, vibrant room wide group conversation.
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Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 2, 2014
Along the way, a number of the companies I had invested in as an angel investor raised money from VCs. Some were tough experiences for me, like NetGenesis, which was the first angel investment I made. I was chairman from inception until shortly after the $4m VC round the company raised two years into its life. .”
Feld Thoughts
JULY 17, 2013
Everyone else – who I call the “feeders” (government, university, non-profits, big companies, VCs, angel investors) – have an important role, but the leaders must be entrepreneurs. As I continue to talk about Startup Communities , I say over and over and over again that the leaders have to be entrepreneurs.
Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 23, 2014
As an investor for the past 20 years, I’ve had this happen many times. When I first started investing as an angel investor in 1994, I was focused on a very simple set of criteria. He looked at me and gave me that “yeah – we should do this” look. And that was it.
Feld Thoughts
MAY 28, 2015
Jim Lejeal, the CFO, was an original angel investor, then board member, and then CFO joining full time when the company was around 200 people. Over the fast dozen years, Rally has gone from a raw startup to a 500 person public company. It makes me so happy to reflect on my relationship with each of Tim, Ryan, and Jim.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 20, 2011
I’d also encourage every VC and angel investor to read it. The Fiction of 20% : This is a classic post from Fred Wilson that came up over the weekend in the midst of a negotiation on a deal I’m working on. Every entrepreneur should read it. Bottom line – there is a difference between “want&# and “need.&#.
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