Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 11, 2016

We came up with a very simple operant conditioning loop framework. Any user that doesn’t is unhealthy and gets an operant conditioning action, which in this case is an email with instructions on how to create a record. If they don’t, they get the operant conditioning action, stay at day three, and are now in category b.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2015

Secondly, the driver of returns for the funds raised in 1978 – 1981 was not their underlying portfolios, at what stage, or in what industries they were built. He was a former Wall Street analyst with no operating or investment experience, who became a VC by teaming up with operator LJ Sevin.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 25, 2013

Pantheon is one of the Silent Killers in our portfolio – and I’m immensely proud of the progress they are making and excited about their future. Friends from the campaign went on to run Obama’s Internet operation. Pantheon is building “A big badass platform that will run 30% of the Internet.”

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2020

Almost every company in our portfolio with more than 50 employees either has or is looking at a second (or third, or fourth) location. When the CEO prioritized either distributed or remote work and makes it part of the wiring of how the company operates, it’s effective.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 22, 2019

directly for the tariffs, well, no … We have a lot of hardware companies in our portfolio so I’ve been living in the world of “what to do about tariffs” for several quarters. And, if you think China is paying the U.S. My fantasy at the beginning was “ignore and hope they go away.” ” Fun.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 26, 2017

He also runs our fund operations and is a full-time venture capitalist, so it is time to get him some help. I think this role will be an incredibly interesting experience for someone who wants to practice in a multitude of areas both for us as a firm but also in helping out our portfolio companies.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

Chris is president and COO of Gnip , one of the silent killers in our portfolio. The amazing thing is that the founders don’t always realize that their company is even operating under an umbrella of trust or that trust is one of their core values. Following is a guest post from Chris Moody.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 17, 2016

My portfolio melted down with the bursting of the Internet bubble. While I was trying to be helpful in general to the firm and my partners, I didn’t like the way we were operating. My whole world blew up in 2001. There was no joy anywhere. In early 2003, I started to think about leaving Mobius.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

That is the goal of CEO shadowing: to put you in the shoes of another CEO, let you observe, ask questions, and form a rich and detailed mental model of how another company operates. Foundry Group is a mutual investor of ours, and Jud and I met at an event in Boulder that they organized for portfolio CEOs. What I learned.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 16, 2011

So when Jim Franklin, the CEO of SendGrid (one of our portfolio companies and a TechStars Boulder mentor) asked if I would write a post about the Founder Institute program in Boulder, I told him that I’d give him control of my blog to write a guest post on it.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 1, 2011

Even when you go back in time to the origins of the software industry: MS-DOS – not the first operating system. When I go through our portfolio at Foundry Group , I consider many of the companies we’ve invested in to be first movers in their current segment. Not the first deal site. Not the first music site. The list goes on.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 25, 2015

” These deeply held beliefs tangibly define our values and give us a frame of reference to operate. We talked to our LPs about what we were thinking, quickly raised a late stage fund to invest on in our later rounds for our portfolio companies, and made our first investment from that fund in the last round Fitbit did in 2013.

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