Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. Venture Capital fundraising VC' And, in the situations where they don’t, how incredibly powerful it is. Fred, Scott, and Jack – thank you.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

In 2003 I seriously thought about quitting Mobius Venture Capital. My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. The depressive episode only lasted three months, but the s**t show continued through 2002 as most VCs and Internet companies suffered a massive collapse. Here’s an example.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2016

” When I go back a decade, we were just making the decision not to raise another Mobius Venture Capital fund. Venture Capital and entrepreneurship was dramatically out of favor. Early stage and seed capital was extremely difficult to find. Early stage and seed capital was extremely difficult to find.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Before the Internet (1970 to 1994). Pre Internet Bubble (1995 – 2000). The Internet Bubble (2001 – 2002). Venture Capital Matters. Comments of any sort are welcome and encouraged! The table of contents, as of today, follows. The Boulder Entrepreneurial Community. Boulder As A Laboratory. Resources.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 2, 2015

After I sold my first company, I started a company called Intensity Ventures to make all my personal investments from. When I started making venture capital investments in 1997, the pace of things, and the amount of work I did, was massive. The name kind of says it all. I never once felt that things were moving slowly.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Jason, BradB, and Mike’s class is a subset of the class that Jason and BradB teach at the CU Boulder Law School which has consistently been one of the most popular law and business school classes around startups, raising money, and venture capital. The four hour course costs $29.99.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 28, 2011

Periodically the meme surfaces that “the only place you can create a great software / Internet company is in the bay area.&# When TechStars opened a Boston program in 2009 there was definitely new energy around the software / Internet startup scene in Boston and TechStars was excited to be part of.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 21, 2016

This is, in effect, a simple form of load balancing that we are all technically aware of from our early investments in some companies that generated, or used, very visible load balancing products before some of these technologies started to become absorbed into the core Internet infrastructure (anyone remember early DNS round robin approaches?).

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

” Second, I went through the scale up of the organizational VC firm in the late 1990s at Mobius Venture Capital. Or that it would have worked great if only the Internet bubble hadn’t collapsed. Venture Capital baremetalvc deeply held beliefs openview scott maxwell Techstars value-add VC'

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

I eventually co-founded SoftBank Technology Partners (which became Mobius Venture Capital) and SoftBank (the corporation) became a 50% LP in Flatiron with Chase. The tension of the Internet bubble bursting hadn’t started yet, but I was already exhausted and negotiating basically all the time with everyone about everything.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 6, 2014

I’ve been through the “what’s next” discussion with Amy several times, including in 2004 when I doubled down on Mobius Venture Capital (instead of packing it up and calling it quits), in 2006 when we decided to start Techstars and Foundry Group, and again in 2013 after spending six months being extremely depressed.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

And – if you want some entertainment (and additional perspective on what’s really going on) go take a look at TechDirt’s post today titled Nathan Myhrvold’s Intellectual Ventures Using Over 1,000 Shell Companies To Hide Patent Shakedown.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 31, 2010

While I’ve spent a lot of time in Silicon Valley — both as an angel and venture capital investor — I’ve never lived there. The first was to energize the early stage software/Internet entrepreneurial community in Boulder. Here it is in its entirety. I’ve lived in Boulder for 15 years after living in Boston for a dozen.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 31, 2015

If you are in any kind of investment business (including Venture Capital) you should read this book right now. War: The Rise of the Military-Internet Complex : This was an important book that crushed my soul. I should have read this book when it first came out. This is a very timely and relevant book for any angel investor.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 23, 2015

In the Internet bubble, while I kept this lesson in the back of my mind, I ended up suspending disbelief, like so many others, in 2000 and into the spring of 2001. You don’t have to look very far to see some remarkable companies that survived and transcended the Internet bubble collapsing in 2001.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2015

I was talking to a VC yesterday who was an entrepreneur in the late 1990s, which we is now commonly referred to as the Internet bubble. We have no idea when it will come, but it will come. He was very successful as an entrepreneur and has continued to be very successful as a VC.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 7, 2017

Many Internet companies are struggling. In addition to my role as co-chairman of Interliant (Len was my co-chairman), I was also a partner at Mobius Venture Capital, sitting on over 25 boards, including five non-US companies. It’s the summer of 2001. The NASDAQ peak is in the rear view mirror. I was exhausted.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 8, 2016

So, my brain was already trending toward the headspace around radical self-inquiry in the context of venture capital. The go-go Internet era of the late 90s fixed both of those things for me. Fred Wilson. Bijan Sabet. Bryce Roberts and Chris Marks. Parker Palmer​. ” . I am ashamed of them to be honest.

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