Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This quarter they interviewed me as part of it on Quarterly VC Update: Brad Feld on the State of Venture Capital Investing. Most importantly from my frame of reference, the amount of activity at the early and seed stage seems to be extremely robust. Each quarter Cooley does a VC market update. Are you a bull or bear?

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 27, 2014

A few weeks ago Hunter Walk and Satya Patel of Homebrew , a one year old seed-stage VC firm that my partners and I are investors in, came and spent the day in Boulder. The next morning Hunter and Satya hung out at Techstars and did office hours with a few of the seed stage companies in Boulder. Venture Capital homebrew'

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 8, 2012

Yesterday I sent emails out passing on participating in two seed rounds for companies I really like. They had lots of investors trying to invest and each company was competitive with two other seed stage companies we’ve seen in the past 30 days. Finally, we believe strongly in active engagement as a seed investor.

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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. We deeply believe that the way companies are created and funded, especially at the seed stage, is radically changing on a permanent basis. When we started Mobius, we were four founders and two EAs.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 19, 2018

“Historically, the $10 million valuation mark has been somewhat of a ceiling for seed stage startups. But so far this year, we’ve seen that a number of companies, often times with nothing more than a team and a Powerpoint presentation, have had great success raising capital north of that $10 million level.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 16, 2012

Oh – and if you are a seed stage company in NYC looking to raise money, you are an idiot if you don’t immediately reach out to Joanne and try to get her involved. We talked a lot about seed stage investing during our part of the conversation.

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