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Where Does Foundry Group Invest?

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In it, he talked about his own experience expanding his investment horizons beyond the bay area, but also mentioned some other folks, including us and USV, where he did a quick analysis of the location of our partner funds. The geographic breakdown of our 123 direct investments follows: Twelve years later, we were pretty close.

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Draft of Cat Hoke’s Upcoming Book – Second Chance

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” A few months later I spent the day at California State Prison, Los Angeles County in Lancaster with Cat, 50 EITs (Entrepreneurs-in-training), and 75 volunteers. What can I do to help?” ” Cat, in her inimitable style, said, “The first thing you should do is to come to prison with me.”

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Who Just Raised A $225 Million Financing in North Carolina?

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This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback. While this is the first time I’m working with Matt, my partner Seth has known him going all the way back to high school and Mark Solon , one of the managing partners at Techstars, worked with him during his time at Village Ventures.

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Too Many Seed Investment Choices

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We’ve made a conscious decision as a firm never to grow – either number of partners or size of fund – so we are limited to the number of new investments we can make a year based on our approach. First, some background. This translates into about a dozen new investments a year plus or minus a few.