Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2014

The CEO and founder, Steve Olechowski , was co-founder / COO of FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007. In addition to bootstrapping his new company forever (since he’s a multi-time successful entrepreneur), Steve could easily raise an angel round any time he wanted to.

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Syndicate Syndication Cap Table Due Diligence 148

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2017

I’ve posted about the massive founder crush my partners and I have on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. When we led Eric’s first financing — a $10 million round and the first capital into the bootstrapped team — we believed mobile location and mapping would be big.

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Afghanistan Bootstrapping Venture Capital Channel 82

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 23, 2010

Occipital’s founders – Jeff and Vikas – are the epitome of bootstrap entrepreneurs. At the end of the program they had a few chances to raise money but weren’t happy with the valuations so decided to hunker down and just bootstrap things.

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Bootstrapping Acquisition eCommerce Valuation 131

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 25, 2015

But even if you, as the founder, believe it, you are still probably deluding yourself. There are also companies, like my first one (Feld Technologies) that bootstrapped and never raised any money. But I’m not talking about bootstrapped companies. .” It’s probably b t. Well – almost no money.

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Finance Bootstrapping Acquisition Revenue 70

Feld Thoughts

JUNE 17, 2015

My partners and I have a massive founder crush on Eric Gundersen, the CEO of Mapbox. I knew Gnip was doing some Twitter data visualizations with Mapbox, so I asked Jud Valeski, the technical co-founder of Gnip, to see what he thought. Let’s start with the simple stuff.

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API Cofounder Bootstrapping Algorithm 70