Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

Last Tuesday, while I was enjoying a week off the grid, AvidXchange announced they had raised a $225 million financing led by Bain Capital Ventures. This was an atypical investment for us as we participated in the financing through our Foundry Group Select fund. But then Mike called me about some more stuff a week later.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

Dave’s a great guy with a good sense of humor and a broad knowledge of the market, which is why I was excited that he could be on the show. VC Financings: 1. It is a platform to help brands building viral marketing campaigns. They focus on trying to drive engagbranded social media marketing campaigns (e.g.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

That prediction obviously turned out pretty wrong, but it did drum up a whole lot of chatter about the right ingredients for building a startup community—about New York vs Boston on the East Coast and whether cities like Austin and Seattle would ever break through. You need both. New Yorkers help each other out.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

Having two well-regarded and well-networked engineers on an advisory project created a stream of terrific VP candidates for Minted and taught me a great deal about the culture and current popular beliefs of the hottest engineering talent in the Valley. The people I spoke with were remarkably clear and consistent in their priorities.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

And if the CEO says, “Salaries will be adjusted to market value soon,” that’s probably a best-case scenario. To begin answering this question, I started on a quest to understand startup financing. Kirk flew into San Francisco from Seattle on that Friday, so he could talk to the founders in person. So I knew a little bit.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

Toronto has become a hub for the blossoming machine intelligence market. billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). You’ve got a great number of senior level talent in engineering, sales, marketing, etc. Times are changing, and these geographical barriers are beginning to break down. Waterloo has another unicorn with Kik.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

This curriculum is based on the various questions entrepreneurs have asked me over these 64 sessions, spanning financing, positioning, customer acquisition, marketing, sales, channel, and various other early stage, startup-related issues. He is looking for financing for the show. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. Our timing was brutal: the Box S-1 coincided with the start of a major market correction for SaaS stocks, and our newly revealed financials made us a natural poster company for that change in sentiment. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Five years, several iterations and a stint at a Seattle business accelerator later, things are going smoothly and successfully. Statdragon is a Saas platform that allows businesses to access and analyze metrics about their existing videos and optimize their video marketing strategy. You can check out further details here. .

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. If you attend networking events, you’ve probably met a lot of entrepreneurs with an idea who need a partner to build it. Click Send – Aaron Franklin's Blog From Microsoft to Startup, and Everything In-Between.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Today, he is Executive Director of Momentum Education, providing experiential learning and life coaching with a focus on leadership development for thousands of individual and organizational clients in multiple different US markets and internationally. What makes you unique? What is your unique selling proposition (USP)?

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 16, 2020

Today, he is Executive Director of Momentum Education, providing experiential learning and life coaching with a focus on leadership development for thousands of individual and organizational clients in multiple different US markets and internationally. What makes you unique? What is your unique selling proposition (USP)?

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Preserve your equity by using a consulting CTO to ramp up your company before securing early-stage financing and hiring a permanent technology partner. And his previous startup failures may have been the result of non-technical business issues like failure to find funding or missed market timing.) Perhaps the more failures, the better?

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

A Startup Journey With GrubHub Founder Mike Evans written by John Jantsch read more at Duct Tape Marketing. Marketing Podcast with Mike Evans. In this episode of the Duct Tape Marketing Podcast , I interview Mike Evans. Take The Marketing Assessment: Take the Assessment. Like this show? Duct Tape Transcript.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas is the most promising technology market in the United States. If you want to launch a new business, this is a great market to launch from because you can easily reach all of the major Texas cities with one office. The larger Dallas metro-region is the fourth largest in the country and Houston metro-region is the fifth.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Time to set real goals, iterate through real product pushes, craft real go-to-market strategies, make real introductions to downstream investors, the list goes on and on. Think partners coming together to tap their own networks for your follow-on rounds of financing. The Clarity of the Terms : how will your company be financed?

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

To interconnect these computers we needed IP-based telecommunications equipment build by the likes of Cisco Systems and Juniper Networks. And when you think about the three C’s you begin to realize that the first two of these activities are ones where the economic powerhouse networks are driven in cities outside of Silicon Valley.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Without the proper technology to match people who wanted a ride with people who could provide that service, taxi and chauffeur companies were drastically underserving the potential market. Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

There are of course other outposts like Austin and Seattle. We will invest pre-revenue and even pre-product if we have discovered the right team in the right kind of market. We look at huge markets where there are large incumbents that might not be incented to innovate or react to what they perceive as an insurgent.

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A Crowded Space

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

I want to tell the story of their Series A financing. Let’s rewind to 2013 and talk about why we invested and how we saw the early network effects of the business. And they had refined the formula to get lots of items to start selling in their home market of Seattle. I met with Nick and talked about the business.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Other factors such as your team, the market you are in, your ability to execute, and in fact other terms in your term sheet are much, much more important to your outcome and financial outcome than is the valuation of your company at the time of financing. He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times.

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mashable.com

MARCH 24, 2011

Building for Yourself Instead of a Market “Scratching your own itch&# is how many great ideas begin, but it’s not a business strategy. It’s easy to let your idiosyncratic preconceptions prevent you from observing what the larger market will accept. Have an account?

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 The important lesson in order to gain market share was that in order for new users to try Microsoft Excel, they had to be able to work with the files their coworkers were creating. Marketing materials. What did you learn at Juno?

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

Each day some new story comes out about some creative marketing plan that takes the cake and drives huge traffic to a business. Whether you pull off unique marketing stunts, have products which need no introduction or style yourself as an innovative CEO, having a defining quality is what customers will notice. #1

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Professor VC

JANUARY 19, 2012

Conceptually, this is very intriguing and goes against the current popularity of accelerators in start-up hubs (Silicon Valley, New York, Boston, Seattle, Boulder) that are filled with recent grads and drop outs looking to build the next web sensation. You network! I also teach Entrepreneurial Finance at San Jose State.

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