Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
In January, Jerry Neumann wrote a long and detailed analysis of his view of the VC industry in the 1980’s titled Heat Death: Venture Capital in the 1980’s. “By January 1984, investors had turned away from hardware toward software.” By 1994 the big software wins of the 1980’s were already funded or public.”
Feld Thoughts
JULY 28, 2014
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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Feld Thoughts
APRIL 13, 2015
All the articles about how capital efficient businesses were a result of AWS, better software development tools, easier starting points, better scaling technologies, and lots of other things. Do you remember when it was “all software, all the time?” The Most Capital Efficient U.S. Oh how things change.
Feld Thoughts
MARCH 20, 2018
In case you don’t know about Jason, prior to co-founding Foundry Group, Jason was a co-founder of SRS Acquiom and a Managing Director and General Counsel for Mobius Venture Capital. Early in his career, Jason was a software engineer at Accenture. Prior to this, Jason was an attorney with Cooley. in Economics and a J.D.
Feld Thoughts
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
If there is one thing you read today, go read Brad Burnham at Union Square Ventures excellent essay titled Software patents are the problem not the answer. Several years ago my partner Jason Mendelson agreed and since then he’s become outspoken about his desire for the end of software patents.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 7, 2010
Seeing the reaction to Bilski, what has struck me is how surprised and disappointed some people are with the weak will of the Supreme Court to act to limit the damage that software patents are causing, and will keep causing, to innovation in the U.S. Software innovation continues, by the way, in spite of the patent system, not because of it.
Feld Thoughts
JUNE 13, 2014
I’ve been asserting for a number of years that while software patents are completely f *d up, the general patent system stifles innovation. More and more research is appearing on software patent issues and patent trolls in general, including this recent piece by Catherine Tucker, an MIT Sloan professor of Marketing, titled The E?
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