Feld Thoughts

MARCH 19, 2014

You may noticed from prior posts that we’ve had a difficult time at Foundry Group managing our growing portfolio of WordPress sites. In our portfolio of startup companies, following is how websites usually get managed. This is why we are so excited to announce that our portfolio company Pantheon now supports WordPress.

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies?

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Agile VC

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

When Rob, David, and I started NextView nearly five years ago we thought it was important to enlist a small group of talented entrepreneurs as we built and helped our portfolio over time. So if they’re not just names on a page, how are these entrepreneur advisors involved with us at NextView and our portfolio companies? Advice Post?-?Investment

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. The point is that the number of angel investments that you would need to hold to significantly increase your chance at finding those 1-2 deals that really make the whole thing work is probably more than you have the bandwidth to make.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2013

My partners and I often worry about companies we’ve invested in having enough bandwidth and resources to adequately cover issues of reliability, availability, and security. While the event is for Foundry Group, Techstars, and Bullet Time Ventures portfolio companies, we have a few open slots in case a few folks would like to join us.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 6, 2019

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. Investors have long argued the value of a portfolio to hedge and leverage the risk, so why shouldn’t entrepreneurs do the same?

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Steve Blank

OCTOBER 26, 2020

On the left is the Pentagon with highly connected data centers with high bandwidth. It’s working on a portfolio of 32 products in 6 verticals across the DOD. Connecting Systems End to End. We’re applying AI across the board. Take a look at the diagram below. If you can’t see the video click here. Lessons Learned.

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Steve Blank

MAY 7, 2019

In three simple steps the Market Opportunity Navigator can help you: Identify a portfolio of market opportunities stemming from your technology or unique abilities. Finding the best starting position is a learning process that takes time and bandwidth – two scarce resources.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 2, 2017

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth, and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. Investors have long argued the value of a portfolio to hedge and leverage the risk, so why shouldn’t entrepreneurs do the same?

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thebarefootvc

MAY 8, 2012

However, the reality is that I am building a portfolio of investments and, like Brad, I believe in being an active and helpful investor. So as an investor, I find myself passing on opportunities at the early stage that I know could become strong businesses, simply due to bandwidth constraints. This takes a lot of time.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 5, 2010

Servers, databases, bandwidth – they’re all virtual now. I want our associate to have empathy for the customers we serve — our portfolio companies. And we all know the fables about how people used to start businesses by taking a second mortgage on their home or by running up credit card debt. Was I too harsh?

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 1, 2013

Yet there are clear advantages to the parallel approach, if you have the moxy, resources, energy bandwidth and the ability to multi-task effectively: A portfolio approach versus all eggs in one basket. Investors have long argued the value of a portfolio to hedge and leverage the risk, so why shouldn’t entrepreneurs do the same?

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Companies like Fold (and soon V1 portfolio company Lolli ) offer cashback rewards for shoppers via Lightning, a Trojan horse for many people to acquire their first bitcoin. Other businesses are pushing mainstream Lightning adoption for shopping. As Nick Grossman of USV spells out here , the rise of NFTs marks the transition from the Web 2.0

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David Cohen

JANUARY 12, 2021

We’ve seen it over and over again in our own investment portfolio – and helped to mentor our founders through these strategic decisions and transitions. Our portfolio of thousands of accelerator companies has now raised well in excess of $10B from investors, with well over $2B of that happening in the last twelve months alone.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 27, 2011

On the other hand, I hear from committed parallel entrepreneurs that there are advantages to their approach, along the following lines: Leverage and hedging a portfolio. Investors have long argued the value of a portfolio to hedge and leverage the risk, so why shouldn’t entrepreneurs do the same? High energy and bandwidth.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 15, 2017

Over the past several weeks, I have been rolling out a series of Spotlights on the Lontra Ventures portfolio. BlazingDB is the third in this series, after RackN and Appbase. By now, a few trends are emerging.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 20, 2013

As I’m fond of saying “ The Scarecest Resource at a Startup is Management Bandwidth ” so choose wisely. Note to portfolio companies … I talk in terms of “shiny objects” with everybody – trust me. They seem to all have avoided shiny objects, hard pivots or the latest fad. More precisely.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 10, 2010

On the other hand, I hear from committed parallel entrepreneurs that there are advantages to their approach, along the following lines: Leverage and hedging a portfolio. Investors have long argued the value of a portfolio to hedge and leverage the risk, so why shouldn’t entrepreneurs do the same? High energy and bandwidth.

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David Teten

JUNE 6, 2011

Andy Brown , Chief Technology Officer, UBS Tim Lyons, Senior Vice President, Technology Innovation Portfolio, Bank of America. Price/bandwidth is plummeting. Panel: Cary Davis , Managing Director, Warburg Pincus, Moderator: Ben Fried, Chief Information Officer, Google, runs in-house technology. Formerly MS IT department. 15 yrs at MS.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MAY 17, 2013

Good post by Ben Milne about focus and the challenges of having enough mental “bandwidth” – [link]. 15 Beautiful and Awesome Examples of Portfolio Designs | Silky Designs – [link]. Most data isn’t “big,” and businesses are wasting money pretending it is | Quartz – [link].

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

High-potential prospective employees of portfolio companies. Executives of large companies which may acquire or become clients of our portfolio companies. I don’t have bandwidth to engage in substantial conversations on Twitter. . We don’t worry too much about marketing to the broader world, who are less relevant. . Tech stack.

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This is going to be BIG.

JULY 25, 2022

For one, they have the bandwidth and network to actually be really helpful. Typically in a pre-seed round, you’ll find that 1 or 2 of your investors enjoy being active with their portfolio companies and can add the most value.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

Find out how you can analyze a web design company through its portfolio here. Search engines invest a lot in bandwidth and sites that are easy to crawl through require fewer resources. Click here to read more about how you can analyze a web design company through its portfolio. Search Engine Friendly Sites.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 18, 2013

Design Tips for Building an Exquisite Portfolio - crowdspring.co/1gqnM0o. For Busy People, Managing Time and Bandwidth - crowdspring.co/15SrwFM. Cartoon Fundamentals: The Secrets in Drawing Animals | Vectortuts+ crowdspring.co/H1ycW8. 10 Brand New and Free Tools for Designers | Vandelay Design Blog - crowdspring.co/GZCqP8.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Canary , a portfolio company of mine, takes advantage of this in the security space. Perhaps this is a common theme in my portfolio. End users, well, we''ve already been mindlessly seeking out open wifi nodes like little bandwidth zombies for years. Snap it on and then--just do what you normally do. Walk, eat, sleep, done.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

No one has that bandwidth to spend that much time. Yeah, so you can see all my portfolio work@leannehughes.com. I was on Google searching for the perfect activity, and then after creating so many over the years, I'm like, actually, this is, what am I actually doing here? And let's play it back to make it faster. It's totally false.

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Brandanew

DECEMBER 4, 2015

No matter what you do, always look for ways to learn more from such experiences and add adjacent skills to your main work portfolio. #2 It provides you with some extra bandwidth to maneuver and helps creatives keep up the experimentation on projects. 2 Doing side projects supplement your income.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

Use that intelligence to inform product portfolio and investment choices.”. The temptation, therefore, is to stop everything, to clear bandwidth for some very real and very pressing crisis management. Building a method for production that makes this efficient enough for profit. Managing the means of production to fit the circumstances.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 11, 2011

We just received an email last week from a portfolio company that is expanding to NY, asking us for some “introductions” to potential clients. I’ve written below an expanded version of the email I sent to the portfolio company exec, outlining the information we need to help support that company.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

The most important is management bandwidth. Public Storage does about $2.4 billion in revenue and has a public enterprise value of $44 billion. Why is it so valuable? They basically said that retail businesses that worked well in one city or location often struggled when they went multi city. There are some obvious reasons for this.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Large funds write larger checks because they lack the mental/resource bandwidth to actively manage a portfolio of smaller investments. Understand the tension between “Portfolio” v. Listen to enough VCs at large firms w/ broad portfolios talk about startup finance, and you will inevitably hear the term “power law” come up.

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K9 Ventures

DECEMBER 14, 2008

When it comes to helping portfolio companies grow, it is the people relationships that matter most — can you open doors to prospective customers, employees, partners, lawyers, accountants, bankers and of course other investors. The other form of scaling in venture capital is that of the size of the venture funds.

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Seeing Both Sides

DECEMBER 3, 2009

  Bandwidth-limited general partners and frenetic CEOs are under pressure to move fast and get things done, leading to rushed, sloppy work to secure the deals.   These three measures are a few I’ve tried to implement throughout our portfolio.   Prudence wins out over blind trust. 2)    Role of the CFO.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 14, 2020

The app had made communicating with the team much more efficient and high bandwidth for me. Alas Doug and Vivek were determined to not raise capital yet, and so we decided to just stay in touch. Meanwhile, I continued to use Pragli on a daily basis with the HiHello team.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

There were instances of, "I want to offer 10 times the performance, or 10 times the storage, or 10 times the bandwidth, or 1/10 the latency," and if you could actually deliver on that in the timeframe proposed, you could feel pretty confident that you would build a big business.

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ReadWriteStart

MARCH 27, 2011

You have a limited fund, bandwidth for deals you can work on, and a portfolio of existing code and skills. Your idea might fit their portfolio or a hot trend, but your early traction isn't enough to be the basis of a healthy business. Think of yourself as a VC. The problem is that they are also known for their herd mentality.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

The brand of the firm matters, but you want to know exactly what partners you are going to work with, and you want to talk to companies they specifically have worked on, to understand how much bandwidth you’re going to get. By “right sizing” their service providers, they fixed the problem.

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