Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

If you want to see a fun quote on it, read A History of Silicon Valley which quotes: “ …many venture capital pioneers think the SBIC program did little to advance the art and practice of venture investing. ” And if you’re curious, it wasn’t too long ago that Silicon Valley was also dying.

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Agile VC

JANUARY 12, 2012

In fact we’re not very influenced by how a startup is received by other investors, as we’re comfortable investing in seed stage startups as either lead investor or as a participant with other investors. Im a former Silicon Valley entrepreneur turned East Coast VC. Author howerl. Read More ».

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The Equity Kicker

AUGUST 24, 2012

This comes on top of a lot of other negative news, including leading investors selling shares in the companies above at minimal profits, and CalPERS, traditionally one of the largest investors in venture capital, announcing that they have made a terrible 0.0 per cent return on venture over the last ten years. Here’s why.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 3, 2010

They don’t mind being the lead investor on deals that they seeded. True was my top pick in Silicon Valley. Brad Feld at Foundry Group also invests in seed deals (this is a great post worth reading on Brad’s views of seed deals). In fact, 7 out of Foundry’s first 16 investments were seed deals.

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Professor VC

APRIL 1, 2010

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. While this may certainly be the case with unsophisticated angels (much less of these now) or in cases with no lead investor, Id argue the opposite. ProfessorVC. Thursday, April 1, 2010. Negotiating an Angel Deal in your PJs. Well, not exactly.I

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in. Favor investment rounds with strong leads that haven’t raised millions of dollars before you. Remember the power law.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 26, 2015

Outside of Silicon Valley, you can usually get into pretty good deals writing pretty small checks ($10K or so) if you are relevant to the sector you are investing in. Favor investment rounds with strong leads that haven’t raised millions of dollars before you. Remember the power law.

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Technical Review Angel Investor Software Review Silicon Valley 120

Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

5:01) Brian's thoughts on the human dimension to his approach and how that sets him apart in Silicon Valley. (6:06) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23) 59:03) The need for creativity, intuition and compassion in Silicon Valley and business. (1:00:23)

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Professor VC

JANUARY 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. This brought in a new set of prospective investors and required a lower investment from the lead investor as our existing investors were committed and on board. Our lead investor, Triangle Peak Partners closed on a $170 million first fund in late 2008.

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Steve Blank

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

Hubris , bad CEO decisions (mine) and a fundamental lack of understanding that we were in a “hits-based” entertainment business not in a Silicon Valley technology company were slowly killing us. One day I got a call from my two investors, “Hey Steve, we’re both going to be up in San Francisco, lets grab lunch.”

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The Geography of Successful and Unsuccessful Venture Capital Expansion ” that the best performing VC funds are based in the major venture centers (Silicon Valley, Boston, and the New York area), but their best investments are outside of those geographies.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2011

Jody didn’t exactly have an easy time fund raising because he’s not one of the prototypical Silicon Valley funded entrepreneurs. I ask Naval about the importance of a lead investor. What if nobody stands up as a lead investor? Naval agrees that lead investors of these type are important.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

I think I took the first two or three meetings with Fred's lead investor, which is pretty funny. Eric Ries : So, what was the investor reaction like? Nobody batted their eyelids too much.

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Gust

OCTOBER 26, 2011

This is the norm for West Coast deals, but it’s often the case in dealing with East Coast investors (more commonly for VC financing rounds rather than angel seed rounds) that the lead investor wants its lawyers to draft the documents.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

With over 125,000 entrepreneurs already using the platform (courtesy of its Angelsoft heritage), at Gust we are dedicated to serving as both a transactional and educational resource for the whole entrepreneurial finance world.

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reidhoffman.org

NOVEMBER 12, 2013

Even though we glossed over those slides, investors knew they could come back to those slides later and dig into them if necessary. By this point in the presentation, our goal was to lead investors to believe: A network-empowered people search application could be really valuable.

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Professor VC

OCTOBER 20, 2009

The last blogger in Silicon Valley. I have been following the rallying cry of entrepreneurs with some amusement over the past couple of weeks in response to a blog post by Jason Calacanis, " Why Start-ups Shouldnt have to pay to pitch angel investors." In how many of those were you a lead investor? ProfessorVC.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Mechanics Angel investors often syndicate deals, which means they join togetherto invest on the same terms. In a syndicate there is usually a"lead" investor who negotiates the terms with the startup. Being Good How do you be a good angel investor? Angels are the limiting reagentin startup formation.

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Scott Edward Walker

JUNE 26, 2011

If you want to get funded, you want to be in Silicon Valley or New York.” It’s really important to have a lead investor.” “In In the ideal seed round, half of it is done by a single investor who you trust…and the rest of it is filled-out by people you want involved.” Traction trumps everything.” “Who

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