Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2023

Since the middle of last week, there has been extreme stress on founders, startup leaders, and the extended startup community. This stress accelerated on Friday when the FDIC shut down and took over Silicon Valley Bank. But, many founders told me that just feeling part of a larger community was helpful.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 1, 2014

is a venture capitalist investing in Silicon Valley and Singapore. The most expensive developers are usually around the Silicon Valley or the East Coast. You’ll also want to look at their portfolios, get introduced to past customers, to see whether their work is the level of quality you’d like for your developing idea.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

I do something I now call community hours. And so that is a steady import of talent but even more interestingly what it really did is it re-energized the entrepreneurial community.”. Venture Capital in Boulder and other smaller communities. “So So everybody goes through this phase of we want to be the next Silicon Valley.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 19, 2019

Meanwhile, we recently talked with him about his thoughts on 35 years in Silicon Valley, why the skill sets of venture capitalists and CEOs are so different, and why telling a good story about your product is so crucial. You’ve been in Silicon Valley since the early days. I’m sure you have unique perspective on that.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

For example, it’s not unusual for tech talent in Silicon Valley to move from job to job fairly quickly, so don’t automatically hold job-hopping against those candidates. Austin has a relatively small tech community, so reputation is a stronger factor there than it would be in a huge market like New York City.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

He does this all round for the Capital Factory portfolio but this week he’ll be in high gear making hundreds of introductions and arranging hundreds of in-person meetings at Capital Factory. Grab a group of friends and tour the latest and greatest of Austin’s startup community. How will crowdfunded investments impact your portfolio?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 16, 2022

The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). This group claims to be the largest angel investment community in the world. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

.” The reason is that at a VC you have a group of partners who often have different focus areas of excellence, each pursues deals in their respective field, each makes investments and sits on boards and each spends their most difficult hours tackling problems at portfolio companies vs. solving the challenges at the VC itself.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

By contrast, as a venture capitalist, I can report that almost all of our portfolio companies are desperate to hire talented software engineers, and eager to hire in a range of other roles. I’ve recently met with several universities, nonprofits, and government employees who’ve all asked the same question: how can we promote entrepreneurship?

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Genuine VC

JULY 9, 2013

Recently, we surveyed our Boston-based NextView portfolio Founder/CEOs asking them about which service provider firms they’ve been using. But rather than just keep the info internal, wouldn’t it be more productive to publicly publish the aggregate results for the whole community?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 21, 2017

Historically, while unicorn startups rightfully garner a lot of media attention and interest throughout the venture capital (VC) community, smart investors have spread their money around among a large number of startups, both large and small. So, no: VC funding isn’t such a rare thing in Silicon Valley or anywhere else.

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Up and Running

JANUARY 31, 2018

“Every company is a media company,” Tom Foremski, ex-FT journalist and the editor of Silicon Valley Watcher, said a decade ago. Web content: Personal and company blogs, feeds, community bulletins. Build a portfolio. Whichever writing category you choose, you need to build a relevant portfolio.

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Technical Review Portfolio Social Media Silicon Valley 126

David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Most of the other VC firms with a history of picking unicorns have significantly benefited from being based in Silicon Valley, having much larger investment teams, and having multi-decade Tier-1 reputations, which has led to them seeing most of the best deals in the market. – Portfolio company diversity.

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David Teten

JANUARY 9, 2018

Most of the other VC firms with a history of picking unicorns have significantly benefited from being based in Silicon Valley, having much larger investment teams, and having multi-decade Tier-1 reputations, which has led to them seeing most of the best deals in the market. – Portfolio company diversity.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 13, 2013

Thomas Clayton has started and run numerous high-tech startups in Silicon Valley. The process of raising money in Asia is very different from raising money in Silicon Valley and, frankly, it’s not nearly as easy. As I touched on before, China and India have the most mature VC communities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

I have never been more optimistic about the impact that the tech startup community is having on cities in America or about the role that cities outside of San Francisco / Silicon Valley can play in our future. Not all of these products & companies came from Silicon Valley but the overwhelming majority did.

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Austin Startup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

This way, I could focus solely on studying and building web apps for my portfolio. I used my lunch time during the bootcamp to work on projects for my portfolio, so the instructors could help me to quickly get unstuck. I didn’t think I’d have a fulltime job as a software developer AND an apprenticeship in Silicon Valley.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 17, 2012

We threw a Launchpad LA dinner to bring the community together as we tend to do 6-10 times a year. Somebody asked the question, “What do you think about the term ‘Silicon Beach? I hate Silicon Whatever. If anything using the word “Silicon” seems a bit derivative to NorCal. LA should be LA.”

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David Teten

MARCH 18, 2021

Investment theses are just hypotheses; the portfolio shows how accurate the hypothesis was. J-Angels “is a community and a VC fund of top American investors (Jewish-American & Israeli-born) in Silicon Valley and San Francisco.”. VC theses are often so vague that they’re meaningless. follow-on ratio; etc.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Heather Brunner, Tim Ferriss, Mayor Adler, Whitney Wolfe, Kendra Scott, Andy Roddick, Rod Favaron, Bijoy, whurley… Here are some of the Austin startup community members that will be on stage who you should show up to support! Successful businesses that give back to the community, and it’s all on brand. March 9, 2018 3:30PM?—?4:30PM

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Hunter Walker

MAY 29, 2022

We were fortunate to include him as an advisor to our portfolio during early Homebrew investments, and he eventually crossed over to venture himself, before stepping back to focus on his own health. HW: This is an area that’s quickly destigmatizing, at least within the tech community. Have you found the same?

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Up and Running

MARCH 11, 2015

But, getting in the doors of a Sand Hill Road VC in Silicon Valley can be an incredibly difficult undertaking. Almost as good as the blog itself is the thoughtful and intelligent community that posts hundreds of insightful comments on a daily basis. Follow AVC on Twitter @avc, f ollow Fred on Twitter @fredwilson.

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View from Seed

JULY 24, 2015

We have companies in Chicago, San Francisco (and elsewhere in Silicon Valley), Omaha, and New York. Over the past few years, the tech community has absolutely exploded locally (and if you’re new here or just want to take it all in, here’s our Hitchhiker’s Guide to Boston Tech microsite).

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Version One Ventures

APRIL 11, 2019

Six weeks ago, we kicked off a new series where we profile an awesome operator in our network to learn about his/her work and contributions to his/her organization and community at large. This time, I am very excited to introduce Sin-Mei Tsai , VP of Engineering at Shippo , a Version One portfolio company.

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The Equity Kicker

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

Jeff Richards of US VC fund GSV Capital has a good post up today: Content, Community and Commerce: Why Verticals Win. His investment thesis is that vertical platforms combining content, community and commerce will make great investments over the next period, and he cites existing portfolio companies including Houzz as good examples.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 11, 2011

I called a bunch of portfolio companies and asked them to check it out. ” I loved the IM’ing with the crowd and the sense of community. It’s just a fad propped up by the Silicon Valley elite marketing machine.” I think that’s pretty cool in the way Pandora helps me explore new music.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

It was really helpful for the community, and it is something we’ll probably do again, although not every year. I find the best angels tend to do great not because they are fixated on making money but because they want to participate in the startup community and be involved in the most exciting projects. Investment Strategy.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

Austin Startup

JANUARY 2, 2021

Planting roots I was recently talking with someone who moved here from Silicon Valley and he pointed out something that really resonated with me. Silicon Valley is a transitional home for many who are not born there and don’t retire there. It’s a place where people go when they aspire for more. They want to have it all.

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The Startup Magazine

APRIL 29, 2021

The undeniable centre of this particular scene is Zug, located about 20 miles away from Zurich, which has been fondly named “Crypto Valley” in direct comparison to the Californian Silicon Valley. of the global biotech patent portfolio, while accounting for 4% of its value. billion to $3.7

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

I don’t have an MBA and I don’t live in Silicon Valley. Look for community supporters and ask around about space. That likelihood goes down if you are not in Silicon Valley or Boston. Angel investors come from a variety of ages, backgrounds, and professions. I’m not your average angel. I’m not your average angel.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JANUARY 10, 2011

This week, the startup tribe from Harvard Business School is making their annual trek to Silicon Valley. It’s a common refrain around Silicon Valley to disparage the role of MBA’s in entrepreneurship. And for my friends in Silicon Valley, I hope you get excited about this, too. Facebook vs. Myspace, anyone?

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

Hacking for Defense is a battle-tested problem-solving methodology that runs at Silicon Valley speed. Teach Department of Defense /Intelligence Community sponsors how to deliver problems to these schools and how to get the most out of student teams. We just held our first Hacking for Defense Educators Class with 75 attendees.

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Austin Startup

JUNE 14, 2017

Silicon valley startups generally use silicon valley startup lawyers. For startups with less dense ecosystems than Silicon Valley or Austin, however, the cost to going local can be much higher. And it works just fine. foreign specialized lawyers is about tradeoffs.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

From Fund I and now to Fund III, we have been able to serve as an important bridge between Silicon Valley and other tech ecosystems. and Canada, offering portfolio companies strong networks and resources on both sides of the border. Our particular focus is in San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto/Waterloo , Seattle, and NYC.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 18, 2018

For m­any years, conventional wisdom held that a promising startup needed to be located in a traditional venture capital hub like Silicon Valley, San Francisco or New York to be successful. In fact, many venture capital firms in those areas would routinely require their portfolio companies to relocate. Be strategic.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 14, 2019

The Founding Chapter is in Silicon Valley, California, (naturally). This group claims to be the largest angel investment community in the world. A caveat is that this is a for-profit organization, so fees to present may be significant. USA Angel Investment Network.

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Angel Investor North America Accredited Investor Angel Groups 241