Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2022

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 2, 2017

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Arizona, where I live. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. But it is an important metric for firms in pursuit of explosive growth.

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Startup Professionals Musings

DECEMBER 7, 2013

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 16, 2015

For example, if you are working on a great social networking idea to replace Facebook, and need funding, you probably won’t find any interested and focused VCs or Angel investors in Phoenix, Arizona, where I live. Finance has homes in New York, Hong Kong, and London. Energy is still the domain of Houston and Dubai.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 30, 2014

I’ve known Joe for a while – we met through Techstars Boston, where he’s been a great mentor and very active angel investor. This morning I woke up to an email thread from a founder of a company I’m an investor in. And, is multiple of revenue really the correct long term metric?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

We still have some collective scar tissue: the idea conjures up the hordes of dot-com hopefuls that descended on VC’s and angel investors with little more than a business plan. The course does not examine financing options or the composition of founding teams. Fraud, deception, and dishonesty undermine this moral calculus.

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