Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

I still remember the first time I met Len, sitting in a restaurant in downtown Boston, wondering to myself “who is this guy and what does he want?” In 2000, I invested via Mobius Venture Capital in The Feld Group and joined the board. Len Fassler is one of the most amazing people I’ve had the honor of knowing.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2015

“Arkansas: Brad Feld has bounced around a lot: born in Arkansas, raised in Dallas, then lived in Boston for over a decade before moving to Boulder, Colorado. He’s most known for founding Foundry Group, a prominent venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investment, but also co-founded startup accelerator Techstars.”

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund. We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. The name kind of says it all. I never once felt that things were moving slowly.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

TechStars Impact on Boston. Complaining About Capital. Venture Capital Matters. Keys of Leadership Culture. Mentor Driven. Non Zero Sum Game. Porous Boundaries. The Power of Accelerators. The Story of TechStars in Boulder. TechStars Impact on New York. How Accelerators Are Different Than Incubators. Classical Problems.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

George, Chicago, Des Moines, Burlington, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington (KY), and Palm Desert. Foundry Group adds $225M to its venture capital pool. This is the first time I’ve done three weekends back to back (I’ve done two before). I love this country (and Canada). Or send her flowers.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

So we packed up, moved from Boston to Boulder, and decided to build a life in Colorado, while I continued to invest. .” But at almost 30, I just didn’t feel done, and in many ways I felt that I was just at the beginning of a new journey (which turned out to be true.)

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2010

I’ve lived in Boulder for 15 years after living in Boston for a dozen. While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. Last week I posted an article on peHUB titled How to Create a Sustainable Entrepreneurial Community. Here it is in its entirety.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 22, 2010

In between events, Mark gave a talk titled “How Does Venture Capital Work”, Sameer gave a talk titled “Business Plan 101”, and I gave a talk titled “Do You Have The Balls To Start A Company?”. Not surprisingly, it blew my mind!

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 18, 2012

” We ended up working for a bunch of Boston-based VC firms and several of them referred us to their biotech investments. We made about 20% margin on the hardware so this was worthwhile, especially since we were able to bill by the hour for all the time we spent on this stuff. years old, I recognize the unimportance of suffering.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

We probably went out to dinner somewhere in the North End, ate a huge amount of pasta and red wine, and then went to The Parker House in downtown Boston and drank scotch until we eventually stumbled back to 351 Mass Ave. . “Oil Prices Will Go Up Forever” Dave challenged me.

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