Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. Some regional firms, such as Austin Ventures (in Austin, TX) did prosper because they subsequently adopted either an industry or national focus.
Feld Thoughts
JANUARY 30, 2020
For the past five years, I’m been involved in an effort called the Global EIR program. The companies founded by these entrepreneurs employ 940 people and have raised over $500 million in venture capital. The post Massachusetts Global Entrepreneur In Residence Five Year Results appeared first on Feld Thoughts.
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Feld Thoughts
MARCH 27, 2018
Now that we are 13 years into the accelerator journey, an accelerator is a well-established construct that is part of the global startup ecosystem. Accelerators and Crowd-Funding: Complementarity, Competition, or Convergence in the Earliest Stages of Financing New Ventures? Wikipedia has a good summary of the history of accelerators.
Feld Thoughts
OCTOBER 15, 2013
When David Cohen and I came up with the idea for the Global Accelerator Network (GAN) in 2010, we counted roughly 100 accelerator programs around the US that were founded following the Techstars model. Today, the Global Accelerator Network is a worldwide organization of 52 accelerators located in over 60 cities around the world.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 28, 2016
Incentivize the Formation and Commitment of Angel Capital. Fix Venture Capital by Fixing the IPO Market. Increase Startups Access to Capital. When I know, work with, and respect more than 50% of the board of a new non-profit, I pay attention. Create a “Startup Visa” Create CitizenCorps.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 4, 2019
While 2011 is only eight years ago, it’s a lifetime in the world of finance, private equity, venture capital, and business. That year private equity firms initiated one of every five mergers globally and even more, 29 percent, in the United States. And then, a year later, the global finance crisis was in full bloom.
Feld Thoughts
APRIL 18, 2019
Over the past five years, there has been a large increase globally in the number of venture capitalists and people interested in becoming VCs. I spent the past few days in Tokyo at the Kauffman Fellows Annual Summit. That said, I still have my bad days and walk out of a board meeting feeling unsettled for one reason or another.
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