Feld Thoughts
DECEMBER 21, 2011
My little buddy, the robotic ball controlled by your smartphone named Sphero, has shipped and you can order a Sphero now ! I’ve worked with Paul since he co-founded Raindance Communications in 1997 and was delighted to quickly lead a seed financing for Orbotix.
Both Sides of the Table
APRIL 2, 2010
A fund size of $25 – $100 million in normally an “early stage&# fund that is likely to do seed investments and/or smaller A round investments. A fund size of $100 million – $200 million is likely to either be an A round investor or “stage agnostic&#.
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Austin Startup
DECEMBER 29, 2018
Ironically, they’ll especially think this if they are working in a big company because they are more cautious about taking risks on “no-names”. The book is also full of very practical early-stage marketing advice so you can break through the noise. having the honor to work for two third-stage companies, Apple and Dell.
Austin Startup
JUNE 27, 2017
The authors encourage quoting from this article or using the data in articles and presentations but request that the title of this article and the names of the authors be cited for attribution. Entrepreneurs with early stage companies typically look for local funding before going out of region to pursue other funding sources.
Feld Thoughts
JULY 31, 2014
His name will be familiar to plenty of you – it’s Fred Wilson. In 2007, when we set out to raise our first Foundry Group fund, early stage tech VC was in the shitter. The prior fund that I had co-founded – Mobius Venture Capital – had blown up after having a very successful first fund in 1997.
Both Sides of the Table
MAY 23, 2012
In 1997, the year the Kauffman Report begins its analysis; there were 70 million users online globally. When you order an Amazon Kindle it comes pre-configured with your user name already configured into the device so that you can click a single button and buy shit. There are 20x more consumers online.
Reid Hoffman
JANUARY 19, 2021
Signing an office lease might not seem like a board-level decision, but with early-stage startups, that lease might very well be a financial liability that significantly exceeds the company’s total cash in the bank. As we discussed earlier, CEO changes rarely make sense in the early stages of a startup.
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