Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2020

The agenda ( full agenda here ) includes the following discussions: DEIS in Corporate Governance & Board DEIS in Human Resources & Talent Acquisition DEIS in Procurement DEIS in Edge Technology Product Development & Corporate Innovation DEIS in Go To Market DEIS in Venture Capital & Investment DEIS in Impact.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From the post about it: “Throughout the development of the Techstars Mobility program, Techstars worked with Detroit based venture capital firms Fontinalis Partners, Detroit Venture Partners and Renaissance Venture Capital to recruit mentors and ensure capital was ready to deploy in the region.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 29, 2019

We also run Startup Weekends and Startup Weeks in over 150 cities globally, have a venture capital fund that invests in companies after they go through the accelerator program, and have a set of corporate innovation and ecosystem development programs that help bridge the gap between large enterprises, cities, and startups.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 5, 2016

I was around at the beginning, spending a day a month in Kansas City with the Kauffman Foundation as an entrepreneur-in-residence when the program was originally created by a team at the Kauffman Foundation to identify, develop, and network the next generation of global leaders in the venture capital industry using a two-year apprenticeship program.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 27, 2014

And we developed a deeper relationship, outside of a specific deal context, which will help us in anything we do together going forward. Venture Capital homebrew' Hunter and Satya both sent thoughtful debriefs around which caused some additional discussion on our end about a couple of topics we felt we could learn more from.

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JULY 12, 2014

They put huge amounts of energy into developing a public persona. Venture Capital actions behavior life startup life VC words' You can have any style you want – these two things just have to match up. Sadly, many very successful people simply don’t understand or appreciate this.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

.” For a long time, I’ve talked about “business intimacy” – it’s the relationship I try to develop with the entrepreneurs I fund and the people who I work with. Entrepreneurship business love culture Venture Capital' The post Business Love appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

There’s something about the silence echoing throughout a vast developed physical space such as LA that calms me down and builds up some reserves for me for the day. Troy reminded me about the Chicago Venture Summit , which is coming up on 10/14 and 10/15.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

That’s how a friendship develops, at least in my world. At one point we were a 70 person organization, with 10 partners, 20 associates, two business development people, three recruiters, a marketing person, two incubators (anyone remember Hotbank?) You do stuff together, learn from each other, and then do things for each other.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 4, 2012

By 1997, when I started investing as a venture capital investor, I was no longer reading business plans. They can use Steve Blank’s Lean LaunchPad approach to get out of the building and actually incorporate customer development early into the definition of their business. And I don’t think I have since then.

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APRIL 19, 2017

When we started Foundry Group in 2006, we were very clear that we were not going to build a legacy venture capital firm; one meant to outlive its founders. We are excited to announce that Chris Moody is joining Foundry Group as a partner.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

Talking heads discuss the ins and outs of everything from product development to investment theory. It’s a truism in venture capital that startups fail most often not because their product explodes, but because their team implodes. Bloggers and Quora have picked up the slack for the situations those case studies miss.

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Stock Venture Capital Lean Product Development 130

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2012

” Over and over again I hear questions like “how do I raise venture capital” or “how do I approach a VC”, or “what does a VC want to see in the first meeting”, or “now that I’m going to pitch a VC, what should I show them? The VCs are individual characters in D&D.

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Venture Capital Programming Finance Web 140

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

Last week, at the Startup America Regional meeting, I got into a conversation about the role of state and local government in the development of startup communities. I’m at Venture Capital in the Rockies today. Somehow these two thoughts merged together in my head and continue to circle around.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 5, 2010

Tags: Entrepreneurship board members Venture Capital.

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MAY 20, 2011

Last night I had dinner with my brother Daniel, one of the partners at Slice of Lime , a Boulder-based web design and development firm. In 2000, Charlie and I became business partners when Mobius Venture Capital invested in The Feld Group and I joined the board.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 1, 2012

Boulevard of Broken Dreams - Josh Lerner: The subtitle summarizes the book nicely - Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed–and What to Do About It. I rarely send out book recommendations to the Foundry Group CEO list – I sent this one the day I got home.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 7, 2010

As a counterpoint, a law professor claims that “ startup executives reported that nearly 70% of venture capital firms and 50% of angel investors said that patents were important to their investment decisions.” This study was, of course, repudiated by the most credible person on it, Professor Pamela Samuelson. At minimum, U.S.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 30, 2017

Over time, I’ve developed an approach to doing reference checks, and they actively avoid asking any of the following questions. What are Person X’s weaknesses or areas for development? I’m on the receiving end of a lot of reference calls. How did you get to know Person X? What is your relationship to Person X?

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

He believes the structures originally developed in the U.S. GESSI develops standardized sample contracts comparable to the National Venture Capital Association in the USA, which are available online at www.standardsinstitute.de. have become the international standard and are a great role model for Germany.

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JANUARY 10, 2011

Congrats to my friends at Avalon Ventures on raising their new $200 million fund. I’ve been friends with and co-invested with Rich Levandov , one of Avalon’s partners, since the mid-1990′s, most recently in Standing Cloud , Zynga , and NewsGator.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 7, 2018

Crowdsourced agenda around two topics: Like many things in our world, we develop the agenda collaboratively and continuously. The leader is a lightweight leader, just making sure the offsite happens with an agenda, as you’ll see in a second. We then fill it out, rarely exceeding a page.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The Foundry Network , as we’ve been calling it, encompasses founders, CEOs, executives, general partners of our underlying venture capital fund investments, limited partners (our investors as well as other investors in the funds we have investments in), and other members of our ecosystem.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

At the time, it was impossible to anticipate how the web would evolve, as 2004 was a particularly low point in the evolution of venture capital and tech companies. NewsGator also had developed key mobile technology, especially for the enterprise, but with a tight dependency on SharePoint.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2012

And, if you look at some of the successful companies we have had from our previous investing at Mobius Venture Capital, you’d see market leaders like Postini, Return Path, FeedBurner, Rally, Stratify, NewsGator, and Sling Media. I’ve been there, having invested in “company #17 in a market.”

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 14, 2015

And developing a reputation for recapping seed rounds is, in my book, silly. The entrepreneur and the VC may not care at all, and that’s fine with us, but we’ll remember the behavior for a long time. In a single turn game, this might be rational behavior.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2017

” Jeff Farrah of The National Venture Capital Association wrote a thoughtful post titled An Unforced Error for Job Creation. What was one of the key recommendations from venture leaders? Retain the International Entrepreneur Rule so the best technology is created and developed here rather than overseas.

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