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Why The SBIC Doesn’t Work For Venture Capital Anymore

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The SBIC was instrumental in the creation of the venture capital business. 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.

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Q316 State of Venture Capital Update With Cooley

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This quarter they interviewed me as part of it on Quarterly VC Update: Brad Feld on the State of Venture Capital Investing. What other “macro” trends do you see affecting the rest of 2016 and 2017? The post Q316 State of Venture Capital Update With Cooley appeared first on Feld Thoughts.

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The Founder’s Story of The Path To Us Investing in Gig Wage

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Fast forward to about a year later, we had recently received an investment from Steve Case’s Rise of the Rest Revolution. After getting through all my questions about his book, we ended up talking about entrepreneurship, technology, and venture capital. We did a live webinar Q+A for all of the entrepreneurs in the book club.

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When VCs Don’t B t You

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The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997. Over 33% of our capital ended up being from the same LPs who invested in USV. Fred can ask me for help on anything he wants for the rest of his life and I will always be there for him.

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Our 2016 Foundry Group Fund and A Little History

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Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund. We subsequently raised a $225 million fund in 2010 , another one in 2013 , and a late stage fund in 2013.

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Business Love

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The rest of our interactions are continuous and real-time, including almost all of our investment decisions. Entrepreneurship business love culture Venture Capital' Once a month we have a full-day offsite. We try to keep our process to an absolute minimum, so we have lunch together on Monday’s and a once a month offsite.

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After Your First Big Success, What’s Next?

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” You now can do whatever you want with the rest of your life. We figured we could easily live for the rest of our life on consulting income and what we’d managed to save, even if none of the angel investments I was making turned into anything.

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