Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2019

In this spirit, one of the key organizations my partners at Foundry Group have helped create and nurture is Pledge 1%. In 2007, we were a founding member in the predecessor organization to Pledge 1%, called Entrepreneurs Foundation of Colorado (or EFCO). And, the companies that have pledged 1% globally is remarkable.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 31, 2014

This LP is also a long time investor in Union Square Ventures and was one of the first people Fred introduced us to when we started raising the first Foundry Group fund in 2007. In 2014, it’s easy to reflect on what has happened over the last seven years and feel good about it. But is wasn’t always this way.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 25, 2022

Paul is the founder and CEO of Marketing AI Institute, and the founder of PR 20/20, HubSpot’s first partner agency. He is the author of The Marketing Performance Blueprint (Wiley, 2014) and The Marketing Agency Blueprint (Wiley, 2012); and the creator of the Marketing AI Conference (MAICON). Um, and, and I always did use the filter.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). At our partner meetings the number one thing I look for in our decisions is the conviction level of the sponsoring partner. You could spent 20 days / year at Demo Days now.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Every year or so my partners and I at Foundry Group create a new company, or start a new project, that we believe had the potential to change the way something works in our world, while simultaneously helping the entrepreneurs we work with, and the entrepreneurs we aspire to work with. Our 2014 project is FG Press.

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Gust

OCTOBER 8, 2014

Marc Andreessen (@pmarca) October 7, 2014. There weren’t a lot of seed funds in 2007 so this was often done by angels, funding consortia or sometimes early-stage funds that existed then (First Round Capital, True Ventures, SoftTech VC, etc.). This is something I think entrepreneurs don’t totally understand and it’s worthwhile they do.

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K9 Ventures

JUNE 5, 2015

So I felt that it was time to express my point of view more publicly and so one afternoon in April 2014, I spent two hours in between meetings writing up the blog post: The New Venture Landscape. Moving up stream is a natural evolution of a venture fund, especially as you get more money and more partners. Implications for Founders.

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The Equity Kicker

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

A lot of them are focused on Series A investing and favour the ecommerce and marketplace sectors that Forward Partners focuses on. The consensus is definitely negative, but one thing that has buoyed my optimism about the prospects for our portfolio is the number of new funds raised in London recently.

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ConversionXL

JULY 29, 2015

Cumming, Leboeuf, and Swienbacher (2014) analyzed 47,139 campaigns from Indiegogo — a crowdfunding platform with the option to choose either KIA or AON models. When we intentionally or unintentionally hurt our relationship partners, we apologize.” ( Estrada-Hollenbeck & Heatherton, 1998 ). 2014 , pg.

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ConversionXL

JULY 10, 2014

Now, depending on your competitive landscape, and how “locked in” a customer might be, you might be better off partnering with a third party to collect the results. Jan Dobson (@mytruself) July 10, 2014. Designing The Survey For Your Competition’s Customers. mrschicken Okay @comcastcares definitely wins that round.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2014

It was published in October 2014 and is available for purchase online and in paperback. . Before 2007, when a handful of companies may have gone after the same piece of business, now scores of them are, meaning we all have to work longer and harder, and in some instances we do so for the same, or even a lesser, amount of revenue.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JUNE 27, 2017

Studio Press was a work horse for many years as we did development of Rainmaker, which was released in 2014 and then a couple years of rapidly trying to iterate that more ambitious marketing automation website email total solution type thing. Remember how long we talked about mobile is coming? Brian Clark: I made that comment just today.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 18, 2011

Local & Mobile – By 2014, mobile Internet will take over desktop Internet according to Microsoft Tag Lab. Social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and YouTube offer useful platforms for small businesses to be helpful and share information with networks far beyond their customer base.

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Altgate

JANUARY 2, 2009

2009 and 2010 will be great times to invest to reap the benefits in 2012-2014, for those who can judge both business risk and liquidity risk, and have the courage of their convictions. I quote his post on the topic below, but the full post is well worth a read. I think Peter is right.

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The Next Web

JANUARY 16, 2014

all IPO’d circa 2007/08 for a combined market value of around AUD $13 billion. From starting the company on a AUD $10k credit card in 2002 to raising $60m from Atlas Partners in 2010, Sydney-based enterprise software firm counts Twitter and NASA among their clients. It is set to announce a first class of 10 companies in early 2014.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 29, 2017

I started Ignite Social Media in 2007 after working in a mid-sized regional ad agency. In 2014, I saw that influencer marketing was growing in importance but not getting more sophisticated. In business, we negotiate with external vendors, suppliers and partners. Photo Credit: Jim Tobin. The model and the timing were good.

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Austin Startup

MAY 14, 2019

In 2007 the word “coworking” got its own Wikipedia page and started to trend on Google, and the rest is history! - When you rent an office in a coworking space, you have access to a built-in community of contacts that can become your future friends, clients, and referral partners. “If you put up walls, there’s no point.

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

The company was acquired by ebay in January 2007. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. RigUp was founded by Xuan Yong and Mike Witte in Austin, Texas in March of 2014. In 2000, Eric Baker and Jeff Fluhr founded StubHub , a secondary ticket exchange marketplace.

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VC Adventure

APRIL 16, 2020

The sheer magnitude of the problem makes it almost impossible for the SBA and its banking partners. The result was 117,000 fewer companies in 2014 than there were in 2007. Seth Levine is managing partner of the The Foundry Group, a $2.5 In 2018 the SBA generated approximately $30 billion in loans.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 9, 2015

There would be no generational planning, no transitions to younger partners, and no senior partner hold-outs who would hang onto economics well after they had stopped working. In late 2014 the four of us got together to talk formally about the future of Foundry Group.

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VC Adventure

DECEMBER 9, 2015

There would be no generational planning, no transitions to younger partners, and no senior partner hold-outs who would hang onto economics well after they had stopped working. In late 2014 the four of us got together to talk formally about the future of Foundry Group.

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Cracking the Code

JUNE 24, 2021

The first one in 2007 was Cornerstone OnDemand, the second one was Peopledoc in 2014 and the third one is Gloat in 2021. We learned that big organisations have big challenges, and they’re looking for partners to help solve them. Fun fact: it seems that I end up investing in a cloud HR company every seven years.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Our reach, network, visibility, and impact has grown significantly since 2007.

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Austin Startup

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

We have been working on the engine for two years with key partners and will be officially launching it at NVIDIA GTC in March. SIGGRAPH led us to our first partner. In 2007, I founded GRIP to use AI (behavior trees) to create high fidelity autonomous characters capable of rich and complex behaviors.

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Hearpreneur

AUGUST 9, 2019

Opening the first modern coworking site in 2014 in Tel Aviv, Israel, the startup nation, made sense because we knew that a flexible rent model would be very attractive to startups and entrepreneurs like us, and that creating a boutique experience would set us apart while also being advantageous for our members.

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VC Cafe

MAY 21, 2021

This is a guest post by Kevin Baxpehler , co-founder and Managing Partner at Remagine Ventures. Hamas is a radical islamic terror movement, which took charge of Gaza in 2007, a year after Israel unilaterally withdrew its settlers. Israel’s high-tech industry did the same back in 2014, during the last major conflict with Hamas.

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