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Kindred Spirits – Our Investment In Founder Collective

Feld Thoughts

One of our recent investments, offered by Founder Collective (FC) – an eight-year-old manager with offices in Boston and San Francisco – is an excellent example of what we look for when we invest in funds offered by other managers. The team at FC has structurally designed their firm around alignment to founders.

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Marching through quicksand

Startup Lessons Learned

The other revels in the world as we all know it will be someday: limitless distribution enabled by new technologies, the importance of collaborative filters, and on-demand availability of all content for end-users. Revisiting the Software Design Manifesto (and what. April 23, 2010 in San Francisco. Bring your questions.

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Announcing K9 Ventures III, L.P. – A $42M technology-focused Pre-Seed fund

K9 Ventures

It was a conscious decision to maintain the fund size at the same level, despite both market pressure (larger rounds at earlier stages) and demand pressure (lots of LP money entering the stage) to raise a larger fund. K9 Ventures II began investing in 2012 and was designed to have an investment period of 5 years.

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Out of the Crisis #14: Robert Rhinehart on the Corona Initiative, accelerating basic research, and finding a cure faster

Startup Lessons Learned

That company was founded on filling a need Robert saw while living in San Francisco and working on a radio startup. "I Afterwards, I was living in the Tenderloin in San Francisco, and my company was basically running out of money. I went through YCombinator on this radio company. So, that's what I started working on.