Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2021

Matt was the co-founder/CEO of Return Path. The two companies did the same thing and were the only two competitors in a nascent category called “email change of address” (Veripost’s original name was IECOA which stood for “Internet Email Change of Address”). Fred Wilson was his lead investor.

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Hunter Walker

MARCH 25, 2015

Forerunner Ventures is one of Homebrew’s favorite co-investors for consumer commerce/retail startups. Firm founder Kirsten Green has an amazing analytical mind combined with empathy for the consumer. How do you convey to founders why your backgrounds are valuable to them? EK: How did you come up with your company name?

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VC Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2022

Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic is a long term visionary of our online future and the Metaverse. Tim Sweeney, Epic Games’ founder and CEO. To live to its potential as a core part of the Metaverse Meta has to overcome a challenging market and a confused brand. Roblox is publicly traded and has a market cap of $27.2

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Hearpreneur

MAY 28, 2019

Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. Marcelo Ricigliano is the co-founder of 4Geeks Academy , a Miami based coding academy with campuses in USA, Chile and Venezuela. How did you come up with your business name?

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The partner at the fund, the VC, gets to do the fun part—the meeting with founders, vetting deals, negotiating, helping, etc. Having a better overall portfolio of venture capital by adding funds into the mix. That’s the first thing anyone trying to raise a fund needs to understand, as well as anyone thinking about investing in one.

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Both Sides of the Table

JULY 13, 2013

Not just because meeting Clayton was influential in shaping my thinking about markets but also because Derek Andersen (who founded Startup Grind) is such an awesome host and runs a very informative events. You’ve got entrepreneurs and founders who are really – a lot of them are in the very early stage of their startup.

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ConversionXL

MARCH 19, 2020

An article on growth and marketing in the middle of a crisis—the current one or any other—can seem tone deaf. This post surveys what people have done in the past—and what marketing leaders are doing now—to make it through tough times and thrive in the post-crisis era. Tim Stewart, trsdigital. But nothing gets better if we stand still.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

A popular approach these days seems to be for founders to regale investors early with a pitch touting the newest “million-dollar idea.” The name and the type have to fit, or expensive rework will be required later. If your strength is technology, find a co-founder who has a comparable strength in business, finance or marketing.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 12, 2014

A few weeks ago I spoke with Boris Wertz, founder of JustBooks, COO of AbeBooks and founding-partner of Version One Ventures. In ” At present, Version One Ventures portfolio includes startups from all over the United States and Canada. Version One Ventures does not look at founders in a gender specific light.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 26, 2010

I want the names of the key buyers, the last time you met them, who the competition is and what are the criteria for a decision. One of his investors called him, “the best CFO in our entire portfolio.&# ). One of the large parts of the burn was PR, Marketing and attending conferences. You’re slitting that stuff?

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Seeing Both Sides

AUGUST 21, 2013

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the unsung hero of many start-ups: the other founder. A lot has been written about the founder/CEO and her growth and evolution as a company grows. In the image above, most everyone knows the name and image of Larry Page - cofounder and now CEO of Google. And then a VP of finance.

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View from Seed

JULY 17, 2019

There may be many fewer series A investors in your home market than elsewhere. The quality, network, or experience of your local investors is likely fairly different from those in other markets. The risk tolerance or expected pricing of investors in your home market may be markedly different from investors in other markets.

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Rob Go

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

For example: Dropbox, Reddit, and Birch Box, to name a few. Founder Dialogues : Eric Paley plays talk show host on this recurring fireside chat style event that has featured Boston’s BEST founders. MITX : Non-profit trade association hosting many events focused on digital marketing and internet business. MIT Start Lab.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. Think about this; 7 years ago Nokia owned 50% of the handset market. Fast-forward to today—Apple is the most profitable Smartphone company in the world and in Spain Android commands a market share of more than 90%. Its worldwide market share of Smartphones has dwindled to 5%.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 27, 2019

Recently one of the startups in our portfolio, eRelevance, failed, as the Austin American-Statesman documented. As I wrote about in my post on Seven critical lessons learned in angel investing , this is painful and you must have a diversified portfolio to practice angel investing and actually make money. No matter the name?—?the

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Hearpreneur

MAY 4, 2019

How did you come up with your business name? It starts with a pilot, with often is pretty small: just one or two teams of co-founders dedicated to growth opportunity areas for six months or so. What do you have that no one else in your market has? How can you make a market and not just capture a share of it?

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David Teten

SEPTEMBER 23, 2017

The extreme example of this are algorithmic investors in the public markets, who design algorithms which trade on the designer’s behalf, as opposed to making trading decisions directly. High-frequency trading, algorithmic by its nature, is estimated to account for at least 50% of US equity markets trading volume. . 1) Market fund.

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ReadWriteStart

JULY 18, 2011

Years later Clavier's name now comes up all the time when one of his portfolio companies finds success; his exits include Mint, Tapulous, and UserPlane, other investments include Mashery (a ReadWriteWeb sponsor), Rapleaf, Fitbit, bitly, GroupOn, Twitter and many more. The market just isn't that efficient to truly determine the best.

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Duct Tape Marketing

DECEMBER 2, 2021

Scaling Your Business Through Acquisition written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Roland Frazier. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Roland Frazier. Roland is an investor, business mentor, Co-founder, and/or Principal of five different Inc.

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David Teten

OCTOBER 7, 2013

Last week I had a chance to interview Kyle Stalzer, President at Tackk (a portfolio company of my firm, ff Venture Capital ), about an issue that’s top of mind for a lot of our companies: How to Recruit an A-Quality Designer for Your Company. Internet marketers help increase traffic to your site through search engine optimization.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 12, 2020

How to Build a Brand People Love written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Emily Heyward. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Emily Heyward, the Co-founder and Chief Brand Officer at Red Antler , the leading brand company for startups and new ventures.

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YoungUpstarts

APRIL 3, 2015

by Jake Dacillo, Marketing Director, Balboa Capital. In 1994 Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said, “retail banks are dinosaurs, they can be bypassed,” in a Newsweek interview. These include making deposits, transferring funds, paying bills and managing stock portfolios. Small Business Loan Overview.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built.

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View from Seed

JULY 8, 2021

Today Lula announced its $18M funding round led by Founders Fund and Khosla Ventures. We couldn’t be more thrilled for co-founders Michael and Matthew for this next phase of building the business with substantial additional backing. I first met the Lula co-founders in Boston about 2 1/2 years ago, at the very end of 2018.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 22, 2012

We constantly hear about “product market fit.” ” But my post yesterday about The Power of Passion When Starting Your Company was about “founder market fit.” Founders come in with something they are super excited about. We’ve got lots of other examples of this in our portfolio.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Gayle King is co-host of CBS This Morning. as in pro wrestling?—?you’re you’re going to take some hits.

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techcrunch.com

AUGUST 12, 2012

Alexia Tsotsis is the co-editor of TechCrunch. Founders Den co-founder and angel investor Zachary Bogue has joined forces with seasoned big data VC Matt Ocko , Metamarkets founder Michael Driscoll and Prismatic CEO Bradford Cross to launch Data Collective , the world’s first Big Data-only early stage investment fund. .”

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Where to Play

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

Adrien Briod , the co-founder, envisioned how a collision-tolerant drone would assist in managing such dangerous situations. That is exactly where the Market Opportunity Navigator comes in handy. Step 1: Generating a Market Opportunity Set. Worksheet 1 – Generating the Market Opportunity Set. The Challenge.

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David Teten

JANUARY 11, 2020

The challenge is that my time and money budget for “influencing”–content creation and marketing– is minimal. Also, since I’m not trying to be a full-time marketer, I can’t use some of the standard celebrity techniques. We market to four populations: High-potential founders. Tech stack. I host on Hostforweb **.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Why Partnerships Are The Future Of Marketing written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Robert Glazer. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Bob Glazer. Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency.

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Gust

JULY 23, 2014

You’ll need to have invested significant cash (whatever that term means to you) in your own company, and you’ll need to have the core of your team in place (typically a techie and a marketer, at a minimum.) so checking out my portfolio of other investments, and my background, will generally give some guidance there.

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Austin Startup

JULY 19, 2021

There’s a reason why Austin has been named the top tech city in the US in 2019 and 2020 by CompTIA. The city was ranked number 6 on CBRE’s Tech Talent Report in 2020 out of 50 North American markets and is home to 5,500 startups. It’s no surprise investors are choosing to come to Austin.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

I’m a female founder. I don’t have a technical co-founder. These are all of the things I heard from a founder that I recently backed. So what about all of the above statements—things that founders widely hold to be true barriers to fundraising? Nearly half of the teams I’ve backed have female founders.

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Genuine VC

AUGUST 3, 2012

For us, the investment is certainly fresh and newest in our portfolio, but it also feels familiar. CEO Anne Raimondi and my partner Rob were colleagues together at eBay in the early 2000’s before she went on the lead product and/or marketing at many household internet names like Zazzle, InsiderPages, and SurveyMonkey.

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Austin Startup

AUGUST 22, 2018

I remembered reading about it’s ‘launch’ a few months earlier, which read: Verts, the Austin-born Mediterranean fast-casual chain, changed its name to Noon Mediterranean. Co-owner and founder Michael Heyne said that people didn’t understand the original name, a reference to doner kebabs (which isn’t even available on the menu anymore).

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). But they are also a tax on your time with portfolio companies, looking for new investments, running your shop and honestly they are a tax on your family life. Co-founder discontent.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 24, 2018

When we create new platform initiatives, our team tries to think about how we can be the most impactful with our portfolio companies. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a new program that we hope will help our portfolio companies with two of these bullets. Pierre Valade, Co-Founder of Sunrise & Mobile Designer at Microsoft.

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