Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 10, 2014

At Techstars, we’ve put a huge amount of energy into building a pipeline of female founders and getting women involved in Techstars in many roles, especially at the leadership level in companies and the program. The program is industry-agnostic, but startups need to have some level of traction.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2015

The co-founders are Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert. Greg is a co-founder of Madrona and long-time VC. Geoff worked with Greg at Madrona for a decade and is one of the most prolific and successful angel investors in the Pacific Northwest. Ben was a co-founder of Madrona Labs with Greg.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 15, 2013

Jason is an active angel investor and has been with TechStars since 2011 with two very successful programs under his belt as Managing Director. He brings amazing technical chops, founder experience and a strong network of his own. I look forward to meeting this new class of founders! Apply now. TechStars austin'

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 12, 2016

Tuesday, May 17 – 10:30am – 11:30am: It Takes Two To Tango – The Working Relationship Between Venture Capitalists and Angel Investors. I’ve seen the slides and if you are an angel investor or a founder raising an angel round, this is a must attend event. Enjoy the week!

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

Today’s #GivingThanks is to David Cohen , one of the founders and co-CEO of Techstars. He told me we were co-investors in a few companies as angel investors. He then explained why he wasn’t enjoying being an angel investor the way he was then doing it. I had an immediate positive reaction.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

The first release is underwhelming, but they iterate aggressively, with feedback and support from some of their angel investors. One of their angel investors, who happens to be a VC firm, decides to invest another $500,000 in the company. and the investors, who put up $1m in a convertible note, get 0.1%.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 30, 2011

There are two founders and they’ve been talking to a VC they met several months ago. This soon to be ex-VC said something to the effect of “I can easily raise you money with a couple of phone calls, but I want to be a co-founder of the company and have an equal share of the business.&#. The answer was no and no.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 13, 2010

In case you aren’t familiar with the Open Angel Forum , the organization is dedicated to providing entrepreneurs with access to the angel investor community based solely on merit and without any fees. The first Open Angel Forum in Boulder was dynamite. Apply here to attend as an angel investor.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 26, 2010

I got a note from Nivi, the creator of AngelList , over the weekend saying that he’d put up a special page for angel investors in Boulder. He’s looking for the local Boulder angels to add their names to the list. Evil VC and here’s the answer, the answer is me.&#.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Scott was the founder of Behance, a company funded by USV and a bunch of seed/angel investors, that was acquired by Adobe. And, if you don’t aspire to be in the messy middle, but hope to one day be a large company, you may as well deal with the reality that you’ll enjoy time in the messy middle.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 5, 2016

We had several high level goals: Understand how AngelList and Syndicates worked by actively participating; Be able to experiment with seed investments outside of our themes; Extend our network of entrepreneurs and angel investors; and. of investors who have participated in at least half of FG Angels deals: 30.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2010

Founders Institute Plain Preferred Term Sheet (by WSGR). If you are a VC or angel investor that supports this effort – same drill ( email me ). Let’s end this madness (which I’ve been dealing with for 16 years and an angel and VC investor) once and for all – the entrepreneurs that we work with deserve better from us.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 27, 2014

I was an early board member, then angel investor, and subsequently VC investor in Terry’s company Gold Systems. It went from an idea and a few founders to an almost $10 million revenue company, before growth peaked about a decade ago.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our As a VC, I do not differentiate between a seed investment and any other investment that I make.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 7, 2015

And, in case you missed it, Spark Capital joined us an investor last week with a few other long time friends in a $15 million round. I originally invested in Harmonix as an angel investor in 1995. It’s rise was well chronicled in this awesome Inc. Magazine long form story titled Just Play.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 18, 2014

I had become an angel investor using some of the money I’d made from the sale of Feld Technologies, and those experiences provided plenty of blog fodder. In 2010, I co-wrote Do More Faster: Techstars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup , with Techstars CEO and co-founder David Cohen.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

Since then, I’ve been a founder of a number of companies, a CTO of a public company that acquired my first company, an angel investor, a VC in two different firms that I helped start, and an LP in a bunch of VC firms.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 8, 2014

” Reid is well known as the co-founder of LinkedIn, a partner at Greylock, an angel investor in many successful companies including Facebook and Twitter, and one of the kingpins of the PayPal Mafia.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2015

As an angel investor, I have never asked for a liquidation preference on conversion that is greater than the dollars I’ve invested. But, I’ve seen some angels ask for it (or even demand it), especially when there is ambiguity around this and the round happens much higher than the cap. But I didn’t specify it.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 19, 2010

I’ve known and worked with Andy since 1995 (I was on the board of his first company – Abuzz – which was acquired in 1999 by the New York Times) and am awed by the amazing things he’s doing in Seattle these days, including Founder’s Co-op , RevenueLoan , and of course TechStars Seattle.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Startup Wealth: How the Best Angel Investors Make Money in Startups : Josh interviewed a bunch of angel investors, including me. This is a very timely and relevant book for any angel investor. If you are in any kind of investment business (including Venture Capital) you should read this book right now.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 14, 2014

After selling my first company, I’d invested as an angel investor in a bunch of companies, was a non-executive Chairman / co-founder of a few, and had lots of ideas for new things to do. At 29 years old I thought very hard about whether or not I was done.

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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. Yesterday, at The Calloway Way event at MIT , I ran into Joe Caruso.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 10, 2010

We decided that we wanted to bring in some experts to help us with the business and together flew around pitching the business to a small handful of strategic angel investors to pull together a small syndicate that became the initial Trada investor base. Recently Google Ventures led the a $5.75m “Series C&# round.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

I strongly recommend that you pay $0.99 (like I just did) to get a copy of the report The Real Unicorns of Tech: Black Women Founders, #ProjectDiane. “A small pool of angel and venture investors fund a majority of Black women Founders.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2012

Naval Ravikant, the co-founder of AngelList, also has a thoughtful comment on Hunter’s post , although I disagree with some of it. For me, the essence of the conversation comes back to making your own decision as an investor. As an angel investor, I invested in many things and passed on many things.

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