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. Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). Continental Capital*. $ 250,000. .

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 25, 2020

Fellows originate and execute startup investments under the supervision of HBCUvc’s investment committee, a team of experienced venture capital investors. Expansion of the VC Lab and Fund will help bridge this funding gap, support more entrepreneurs, and provide venture experience to create a pipeline of Black and Brown VCs.

Technical Review 100

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Earlier in the morning I read Jason’s post on LinkedIn titled The Great Venture Capital Rotation. I think it was originally titled “The End of Venture Capital Sort Of” (based on the URL). So I dove in and joined a few syndicates on AngelList, including Jason’s , Dave Morin , and Naval’s.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 10, 2022

Sometimes, given your syndicate configuration, you have no choice but to take structure in a new round. and a bunch of other things. But if you can do a clean financing at a lower price, I always think that’s a better option for everyone (founders, employees, and existing investors.).

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2014

The first article, In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together , was a summary that let to the second article, The Cost of Friendship , which led to the actual article behind the annoying SSRN paywall. Venture Capital gompers hbs syndicate VC' This was clear and felt fine to me.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 30, 2015

Yesterday we closed our fifth fund, Foundry Venture Capital 2016, L.P. In 2007 we raised our first fund – Foundry Venture Capital 2007. We are syndication agnostic – we’ll invest with other VCs or invest by ourselves. As with all four of our other funds, it’s a $225 million fund.

Minneapolis 70

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 29, 2014

The first article, In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together , was a summary that let to the second article, The Cost of Friendship , which led to the actual article behind the annoying SSRN paywall. Venture Capital gompers hbs syndicate VC' This was clear and felt fine to me.

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Venture Capital IPO Syndicate Syndication 111