Feld Thoughts

MARCH 14, 2012

It dawned on me last night that as of tomorrow TechStars will have three programs running at same time with about 40 companies actively engaged in programs in Boston, New York , and San Antonio. Last week David Cohen, the co-founder and CEO of TechStars announced that he had raised a new $28 million seed fund called Bullet Time Ventures II.

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Feld Thoughts

JUNE 2, 2010

I’m on an Acela train between Boston and New York (listening to Boston’s More Than A Feeling – how recursive) on my way to the TechStars Boston 2010 Investor / Demo day. My long time friend and co-angel investor Will Herman wrote a post titled Angel Investing that summarized some of his advice. So – here’s the advice: 1.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 12, 2016

This is dangerous, especially for founders. I was in Boston at the end of May and had three separate experiences in one day. The second was Techstars Boston Demo Day, showcasing 14 brand new companies. We started Techstars in 2006 and ran the first Boston program in 2009.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2013

As a co-founder of TechStars , I’m a huge believer in the mentor-driven accelerator model. We funded the first TechStars program in Boulder in 2007 with $230,000. We ran the second program in 2008, expanded to Boston in 2009, and adopted a funding strategy for each local program which we continue to use to this day.

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This is going to be BIG.

DECEMBER 28, 2013

Every time he opens his mouth about founder diversity, he seems completely out of his league to address the topic. The biggest question I think VC''s face right now is whether or not, in the future, the best founders will look and act like the best founders of the past. YC''s best investing days may be behind it.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

This is true not just for entirely new product categories like tablets, but even existing ones… smartphones had been around for 5+ years before the first gen iPhone launched in 2007 (remember Palm Treos and the original Blackberry phones?). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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Rob Go

APRIL 14, 2014

But just as important in my mind is a proposal that was introduced to allow international entrepreneurs to build businesses in Boston with an exemption from the H-1B visa cap. This particularly hits home for me because I myself was on an H1-B for my entire professional life before gaining permanent residency in the United States in 2007.

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crowdSPRING Blog

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Since 2007 it’s helped find, fund, and nurture technology companies out of its 65,000 square foot workspace in downtown’s Lyric Opera building. Coalition has six locations, with two located in Chicago and others in New York and Boston. 20 N Upper Wacker Dr #1200. Merchandise Mart Plaza. Suite 1212. 405 W Superior, Floor 5 & 7.

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Startup Lessons Learned

AUGUST 16, 2010

Rashmi Sinha, co-founder and CEO of SlideShare , describes an early version of the analytics package that’s part of the Pro accounts the company announced today. SlideShare, founded in 2007, started experimenting with MVPs and A/B testing this year. -Eric] “The first user experience was actually terrible.&#

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

Have a founders agreement. If you can’t afford this then make very simple, clear, plain English, written, signed agreements with you “co-founders”. If you eject or lose a founder, document that previous agreements are null and void, and that they waive all rights to the company and the intellectual property. Good advice.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  The criteria for inclusion on this list is rough but basically boils down to the primary author of the blog has to be a founder or C-level executive at an entrepreneurial organization and write relatively frequently about entrepreneurial stuff.    So with that in mind, I created a list of entrepreneur blogs. 

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Seeing Both Sides

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The two classes I taught this week at HBS, based on a case that I co-authored with Professor Noam Wasserman called "Curt Schilling's Next Pitch" (which you can order here from HBS Press ), were energized to have Schilling in the classroom alongside his CEO Jen Maclean. They can't be any worse than the Boston sports media."

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

And since VC dollars tend to concentrate around high-tech R&D areas, it’s notable that more than 90% of the nation’s innovation-sector growth (2005-2017) is accounted for by just five metro areas — Boston, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle, and San Diego. in the mid-1940s — derived from East Coast institutions.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 9, 2009

In fact, I remember sending him and his obscure-to-me co-founder (aka Reid Hoffman ) a bug report early-on, instead of taking them up on their offer of an in-person meeting. I managed to be envious of dozens of other companies, founders, and colleagues who seemed to be having tremendous success but later turned out to be a mirage.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston the same dynamic as Silicon Valley has been afoot… at least in the software/internet sphere, the majority of startups have migrated from the suburban loop of Rt 128 back into the urban core of Boston & Cambridge. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The funds with sophisticated non-venture center outbound origination programs were almost all able to raise funds equal or larger than their preceding fund in the economically challenging period 2007-2010. A number of the funds we studied use an origination approach that allows them to proactively co-create companies or opportunities.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 12, 2010

This was a really fun episode for me because Mo is informed and knowledgeable on so many topics and being a Boston / NYC VC it gave us so much to talk about relative to just covering California VCs. We discussed NY vs. Silicon Valley and NY vs. Boston. No big shocker since it is co-founded by Biz Stone and Adam Ruegel.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 28, 2015

After that random day meeting, Brad became a co-founder of Techstars along with me, Jared Polis, and David Brown. I consider him a co-founder of Techstars, even if that’s not how the way back machine will necessarily tell the story. Something necessary for the Boston community. So many great founders.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After giving the applicants just 10 days to submit, Graham received an amazing 227 applications, which just goes to show the unbelievable drive that the young would-be founders had. Like a parent, Y Combinator protected and guided a group of eight applicants who were chosen to be part of the Y Combinator Summer Founders Program.

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Duct Tape Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Brian Hal ligan and Dharmesh Shah, the two co-founders wrote that book. John Jantsch: Yeah, I mean … It’s not in … 2007, spring of 2007 Duct Tape Marketing came out, first edition, and I did not cover social media. I was going Boston-Denver-Boston and so I was the designated Wolf wrangler.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

As a founder of a company, there is nothing more painful than to see your most loyal and devoted customers suffering. Eric, When I came to IMVU back in 2007, I had really enjoyed the actual product (the chat client) and getting to know the regulars on the forum. That is what company founders and staff do not get.

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