Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 6, 2011

If your company is interested in joining Startup Summer, please email me and I’ll get you plugged in. Startup Summer, a new program from Startup Colorado , will bring hard working, passionate college-age entrepreneurs to Boulder to work as summer interns for startup companies.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 22, 2011

Several years ago, there was a lot more about “how to startup a company&# , especially around product, vision, and team. It was with this backdrop that I read The Lean Startup by Eric Ries over the weekend. Now a lot of that focus has shifted to deal making and exits.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 11, 2012

In addition to being an outstanding early stage / high growth executive, Chris has made a study of management in startups and is extremely thoughtful about what does and doesn’t work. His first post is aimed at anyone looking to get a job in a startup and talks about how to be effective at interviewing for a job.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

In the last five years, there has been an explosion of startup activity in LA that continues to be exciting as the startup community grows and evolves. I’m an investor in many early stage VC funds and, while I’m not a rigorous annual meeting attender, will go if one of the GPs asks me to.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2013

The paragraph that caught my attention was: I call this constant advising/mentoring of early stage startups “mentor/investor whiplash” and I think it is a big problem. Not just with the accelerator programs but across the early stage/seed startup landscape.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2015

PSL, based in Seattle, is a not a VC firm, accelerator, or incubator, but instead is a startup studio, which is a company that creates companies. for new ‘startup studio’ Pioneer Square Labs. At Foundry Group, we’ve experimented with lots of different things around company creation and early stage investment.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Looking back seven years later, I’m immensely proud and satisfied with the impact Techstars has had on the world of entrepreneurship, especially at the early stages of company creation, and look forward to our goal over the next seven years of building the most powerful and connected early stage startup network in the world.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 4, 2013

I’ve used it with founders of companies I’m looking at investing in, TechStars founders, and execs for early stage companies. The idea, and execution, for all of the Startup Revolution stuff came out of what I do on the weekend. And Startup Boards seems to be following the same pattern for me.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

I talk more about this and lots of other topics in my recent book Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City. . All four of us had been successful entrepreneurs and we decided to try TechStars as an experiment to help create more early stage start-ups in Boulder.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Are you building a cloud startup? Earlier this month TechStars announced its newest accelerator program, TechStars Cloud , and we are looking for the best cloud startups we can find to go through the inaugural program. If so, apply to TechStars Cloud today ! Apply now as the deadline is October 21.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

It continues to be highly dependent on company, stage, and location. At the early stages, raising the first $2m tends to be straightforward in most geographies that have meaningful startup communities. Since we are early stage investors, it simply doesn’t matter if we are a short term bull or bear.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 7, 2013

Not only does Gluecon have the usual raft of amazing startup/early stage sponsors, but this year, the “big guys” are showing up (SAP, Intel, HP, Google, IBM, General Motors, Rackspace). Enterprise development is once again white hot. More evidence is this year’s Gluecon.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

About a year ago David Cohen and I were having a beer together talking about ways to capture all the different things we’d learned about early stage entrepreneurship from running the TechStars program. The result is Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup. If you are interested, go grab a copy.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2012

As part of the conference, Eric provides 15 early-stage startups with FREE exhibit space. If you are an early-sage startup (pre-funding or seed funding) in mobile app development, cloud computing or big data, this is a great way to get some face time with us. Did I say FREE? Did I say the demo pods were free?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 9, 2016

This request includes anyone who has gone through a Techstars accelerator, done a Startup Weekend, participated in a Startup Week, receives Startup Digest, or has been a mentor or investor in any Techstars company or program. Or anyone else who has been positively motivated or influenced by Techstars in any way.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 16, 2015

Today Techstars announced that it has acquired UP Global , including the organization’s Startup Weekend , Startup Week , Startup Next , and Startup Digest programs. The merger of these two great organizations is a logical next step in the expansion of vibrant startup communities around the world.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 12, 2011

Feeling overwhelmed, Dick emailed his friend Josh, the CEO of an early-stage startup in Boulder, to see how they figured out all of this stuff. While John was trying to be helpful, his advice missed the mark because he didn’t have a lot of experience at the early stages. as a C-Corp in Delaware.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 11, 2015

He’s most known for founding Foundry Group, a prominent venture capital firm that focuses on early stage investment, but also co-founded startup accelerator Techstars.” ” I was born in Blytheville, Arkansas on an air force base in 1965.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 20, 2017

It provides an outlet for mentors to engage in their local startup communities and keep a pulse on emerging technologies. The AngelList funds will give mentors and alumni early investment access while providing companies with additional early stage capital. AngelList syndicates helps enable seed stage investing at scale.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2010

I’ll include a handful of early stage investors (both VCs and angels) in this effort. Then we’ll open source these and evangelize them across the startup world, at least in the US. My goal will be to finish the day with a truly standardized set of seed documents that all of the firms agree to use.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2011

For example: How Did We Get Our Idea For Our Startup? How Much Equity Should an Early Stage COO/CFO Get? We did this for a while, getting to most of the questions which has created a very nice corpus of answers to several hundred questions easily searchable by Lijit. How Do You Negotiate a Carve Out With Investors?

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 19, 2013

We both started out as entrepreneurs and have spent a lot of time participating in, learning about, and teaching how to create and scale startups. ” Steve takes the opposite view – concerned that anyone who wants to be on an early stage board is resume padding, potentially a control freak, or the enemy of the founders. “At

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

If we fund an early stage startup company today and it’s hugely successful, it’ll be coming into its own in 2025. That’s a good marker for many of the early stage companies I’m involved in. Ponder that for a moment. I’ll be 60 in 2025.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 1, 2010

Fred Wilson from Union Square Ventures recently wrote an excellent blog post titled “The Expanding Birthrate of Web Startups.” As with many of Fred’s posts, the comment section was as useful as the post, and early-stage investors such as Mark Suster, Charlie O’Donnell, Roger Ehrenberg, and Anonymous Coward weighed in.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

I wish I had titled it what was in my mind when I wrote it, which was “How Can This Be A Billion Dollar Company and other b t VCs ask early stage companies” – that would have been more fun to see in my Twitter feed. Since I wrote it in the summer of 2014, it must have been picked up somewhere and hit a new chord.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2013

I’ve been a big supporter of Startup Weekend , locally and nationally, since the very beginning and I’m continuing to do so by both sponsoring and mentoring in the NEXT Boulder program. Below are the words of Ken Hoff, an up-and-coming leader in the Boulder startup community. Sponsor NEXT, contact me at boulder@swnext.co

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2010

I’ve been here three times in the past year – the first time was to hear Bilski at the Supreme Court in November and then I was back in March to talk about and promote the Startup Visa. Create a cabinet position (Secretary Newco) that is focused on pushing through initiatives that help startups and unleash millions of entrepreneurs.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 15, 2011

Regardless, they always have competition, whether from other startups, existing companies, large incumbents, or companies they don’t even know about yet. Whenever the startup world heats up, there are many more new entrants. In many cases, they want to create entirely new markets.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 15, 2016

I wrote about this a lot in my book Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors. In pre-seed and seed stage companies, there’s been a trend against having board of directors. .” It’s a bad default that needs to be reset. In the past few years there have been some interesting changes.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 18, 2012

I’ve been writing about boards of directors some lately – both changing my behavior as well as thinking out loud as I explore reinventing how boards work for the book “Startup Boards” that I’m working on with Mahendra Ramsinghani.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2010

The first was to energize the early stage software/Internet entrepreneurial community in Boulder. Hackathons, Startup Weekend, and Open Angel Forum events are the next level. When David Cohen (CEO of TechStars) and I co-founded TechStars in Boulder, Colo., in 2006, we had two goals in mind.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In the case of an early-stage startup that hasn’t issued preferred stock yet, the debt converts into stock of the acquiring company (if it’s a stock deal) at a valuation subject to a cap. Some sort of conversion does occur. If it’s not a stock deal, then one normally sees one of the above scenarios.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

KG companies have decisive tax disadvantages for startups and are, therefore, rarely used in this area. Since the attractiveness of investments is also largely related to exit channels, this aspect affects the availability of capital and company valuation at every stage. BAND) and the Bundesverband Deutsche Startups e.V.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 29, 2011

Finance Friday’s gets off the ground with today’s post by introducing you to an imaginary startup, the entrepreneurs that we’ll being following throughout the series, and their first challenges: splitting up the founders’ equity and addressing the case where one of the founders provides the initial seed capital for the business.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

So I’m extra satisfied that “ Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup &# is finished. Startups have an important advantage over larger companies when they use the philosophy of doing more faster. Yesterday, I wrote a column about the book that David Cohen and I just wrote called Do More Faster.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

Our strategy is “early stage” – so we are comfortable with seed investments, first round investments, and what might in the past have been called Series B investments if the company hasn’t raised much money to date (less than $3m). This translates into about a dozen new investments a year plus or minus a few.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2015

We are in a very positive part of the startup / entrepreneurship cycle. And I don’t care since, as an early stage investor, I play a long term investing game, because I have to. ” I have no idea if we are in a bubble or not. I can’t control liquidity or timing, especially when I initially make an investment.

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