Feld Thoughts

JULY 17, 2023

When that ultimately failed , I began supporting several grassroots movements like the GEiR program , invested in companies founded by immigrants, am an investor and board member of Boundless , an early LP in Unshackled Ventures (unrelated to this book), and even became the executive producer of a movie called For Here Or To Go.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 12, 2019

As an LP in USV, we are small indirect investors. We’ve ordered 50 hotspots and, with your help, will set up a LongFi network throughout Boulder. If you are asking, “What’s Helium?” ” here’s a fun video to get you started along with a deeper explanation of the technology.

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Networking LP Restful Internet 92

Feld Thoughts

JULY 9, 2011

On my run today I was thinking about GP – LP interactions. The interaction was I had with one of my LPs over the last 24 hours. I didn’t know the person, but knew a few people who did, and quickly sent emails getting addition info for my LP. I tried to come up with a rationale for blowing off an LP.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

In addition to being an incredibly supportive investor in us from the beginning, this LP has become an extremely close friend. As I was walking home after dinner, I thought about the person who had introduced us to this LP. The wonderful dinner last night with the LP Fred introduced me to reminded me of this.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2016

Does Lindel agree with Chris Douvos in stating this could lead to the ‘hybridisation of GP and LP’? Where do most prospective fund managers fail when pitching to LPs? What are the biggest problems with the LP community today? What do the financial compensation plans look like for LPs?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 18, 2016

” as part of a discussion with an LP. Upon reflection, the LP was clearly asking me indirectly about my long term commitment to venture capital and, without asking “how much longer are you going to do this VC thing? I was recently asked the question “What is your next career?”

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LP Venture Capital Programming 78

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 10, 2014

Venture funding goes ballistic: VCJ : Some people are starting to call the top of the current cycle, at least in the context of flows of LP funds into VC firms. We had our LP Annual Meeting yesterday and I had a vibrant conversation with a few of our LPs about this topic at lunch.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 23, 2020

As an LP in Freestyle, I’m extremely excited to see their leadership in this area. While I feel like I’ve explored – in therapy – some of the things they talk about, I know that I’m still struggling with a bunch of this, especially as I shift into the next phase of my life.

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Leadership LP Programming Portfolio 90

Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Maybe the next one will be called “I’m an LP.” And Seth – well – enough said. If you see Jason in the next few weeks, tell him that it’s time to make Video #3 so we can get Lindel in the mix. ” The post I’m a VC and the Worst of Times appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 24, 2017

We are proud to be an LP in Manu Kumar’s third fund. My partner Lindel just put a post up on the Foundry Group website about our investment in K9 Ventures. I’ve been friends with Manu since 2009 and an investor (personally) in his first two funds.

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LP Engineer Conversion Partner 91

Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Their podcast series is called Origins and is unique among podcasts as they go deep into the formation history of venture funds, especially from an LP perspective. Dinner was about them and as they learned, if you trek out to Boulder, dinner is on me.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

On paper, only one is in positive return territory as a fund, but the SBIC leverage is a substantial negative factor for the LP investors in that particular fund. As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC.

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SBIC Venture Capital Colorado SBA 142

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

While I don’t have portfolio level stats for them, their new endeavor Foundry Next (to invest in smaller funds and then follow-on into key investments) has built up an LP basket of 23 positions in a variety of new VC funds.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

He’s an LP in several Techstars funds and a direct investor in a selection of Techstars companies. MIR’s spend near-full-time at Techstars during each cohort to help as extensively as possible with companies and help other Mentors be good at it. Jay has embraced this responsibility for every Boston cohort since then.

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Boston LP Reputation Stock 94

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

He’s an LP in several Techstars funds and a direct investor in a selection of Techstars companies. MIR’s spend near-full-time at Techstars during each cohort to help as extensively as possible with companies and help other Mentors be good at it. Jay has embraced this responsibility for every Boston cohort since then.

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Boston LP Startup Equity 118

Feld Thoughts

MAY 28, 2014

The advantage, for all the investors (the VCs and their LPs), is that $100m gets put to work as invested capital, rather than just $85m. Our view as a firm is that a successful VC fund has a net return of at least 3x to the LPs. That means that if an LP invests $1 in the fund, they get back $3 over time.

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Management .Net LP Venture Capital 150

Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

20VC: WHY MANY VCS FAIL TO RAISE, WHY LP COMPENSATION IS A MASSIVE PROBLEM & WHY FUND OF FUNDS WILL BECOME MORE PROMINENT WITH LINDEL EAKMAN, MANAGING DIRECTOR @ FOUNDRY GROUP. I’ll use Harry’s original titles so you can see how his SEO prowess has evolved. 20 VC 065: FOUNDRY GROUP WEEK 1: BRAD FELD.

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LP Cofounder Australia SEO 70

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 10, 2018

My partners and I just announced that our long-time friend and LP – Jamey Sperans – has joined Foundry Group. We’ve been working with Jamey since the beginning of Foundry Group in 2007 (he was one of our first LPs via Morgan Stanley AIP) and have become extremely close friends.

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LP Denver Partner Community 35

Feld Thoughts

MARCH 20, 2019

Since then, I’ve been a founder of a number of companies, a CTO of a public company that acquired my first company, an angel investor, a VC in two different firms that I helped start, and an LP in a bunch of VC firms.

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LP Angel Investor Cofounder Leadership 108

Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 10, 2013

I’m guessing that Jamey was the LP in the post that Jo is referring to, since the principles of business love, that Jo refers to, are exactly what we talked about. I remembered my conversation with Jamey. I recalled that Jo Tango had written a post on business love a while ago and went back and looked it up.

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LP Venture Capital Conversion Restful 152

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 17, 2011

started Draper Gaither & Anderson , one of the first VC firms on the west coast that coincidentally was the first firm to use a limited partner (LP structure). Draper is one of the original VCs – his father ( William Henry Draper, Jr. His son, Tim Draper , started Draper Fisher Jurvetson.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 6, 2016

He immediately programmed me into the content for Wednesday (LP/GP day) and Thursday ( entrepreneur day ). Since I was already in LA on Monday, I told Mark I’d stick around for the Summit if he thought it’d be useful to him and the team.

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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. We all started working with SoftBank as affiliates (along with Rich Levandov). We made more investments together.

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Non-Compete LP Venture Capital Affiliate 70

Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

We don’t expect anything for this other than a role as a typical LP, but we view it as increasing the seed ecosystem. Stay firmly focused on our strategy : We’ve seen strategy drift destroy VC returns, create chaos within VC firms, and make a mess of many VC / entrepreneur relationships.

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Seed Stage LP Warrant Syndicate 138

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 23, 2015

We had a blast together and as we went out to raise our Foundry 2007 fund, Scott made several introductions which resulted in two wonderful, long term LP relationships. A year or two later they had less than 3% market share on mobile. That’s how a friendship develops, at least in my world.

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Advisory Board Venture Capital LP Seed Stage 70

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 6, 2010

LPs : I only had one email from an LP. Several asked me whether I was still watching 24 (yes, I will watch it to the bitter end.) I received private emails from each of my partners containing a slightly different version of “are you out of your fucking mind?”. It was a short one. Don’t waste your time on this.”.

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Term Sheet LP Finance Email 118

Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 28, 2015

I’m in for $100,000 so you’ve got your first LP. .” David: “Do you really think I can do that?” ” Brad: “Absolutely – you’re a great investor. Raise a small fund – $5 million. I’ll help you get it done.” ” David: “Ok – let’s go.”

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LP Seattle Angel Investor Partner 70

Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

Foundry is an LP in TenOneTen and it’s been fun to work with David again after a long hiatus. Oh, and they are married. While I’ve never met Abbi, I’ve known David since the late 1990s when I was on the board of PeoplePC and he was a co-founder.

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Los Angeles Alaska LP Cofounder 17