Feld Thoughts

APRIL 17, 2018

We are significant LPs in the fund and my partner Lindel is joining the PSL advisory board. I fondly remember a box of happiness from Microsoft showing up at my office in Boston every month, usually full of software, books, an occasional t-shirt, or plaque. Today, PSL announced their new $80 million venture fund.

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www.entrepreneur.com

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

July 31, 2007 |. When determining the value of the sweat equity provided by an employee or potential co-founder, first assess these three characteristics of the person in question: Commitment: Is he or she committed to being a founding partner for the long haul? Coming soon to Dallas, Boston and Philadelphia. Jump to Comments.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

How about a person who moves here from Boston but keeps his Boston phone number on his SmartPhone and uses it to surf the web and order “software?” An equal number of non-productive administrative/audit people would be needed on the other end, within businesses who use technology, as well as their technology partners.

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Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

My partners and I have blogged about some of these including Invited Guest , Golazo , Authentic , and Tribe. My partner David recently wrote about how investors tend to bring their own inherent biases (both good and bad) into pitch meetings with entrepreneurs. My partner @ LeeHower looks back: [link] 5 days ago Search.

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Altgate

DECEMBER 11, 2008

My fellow panelists were serial entrepreneur Gary Ambrosino , PWC Partner Jason Kelly and executive search guru Clark Waterfall who moderated the event. Share and Enjoy: This entry was posted in Entrepreneurship and tagged angel , Boston , entrepreneur , investing , startup. These events are a great format. Bookmark the permalink.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 27, 2016

When Amy and I lived in Boston we started reading it every Sunday morning and continued whenever we travelled. Today’s Corner Office is with John Lilly , a partner at Greylock Partners , is titled Simplify the Message, and Repeat Often. When we raised the first Foundry Group fund in 2007 we took over 100 first meetings.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

This time I told him I’d run it by my partners and get their feedback. We met through YEO in Boston in the early 1990s when we were each running our first company. When we started Foundry Group in 2007, we stated that we would invest in companies throughout the United States. Julien talking about AvidXchange.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 28, 2014

As a partner in one of the most visible VC firms in Colorado and an LP in many of the Colorado VC firms, I’ve never heard from Matthew or anyone from the SBIC. At Foundry Group, our significant exits (at least 10x capital returned) since we raised our first fund in 2007 include AdMeld, Zynga, MakerBot, and Gnip.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

He is currently a founding partner at Ninety Five 5 (Less Nonsense – More Sales). Mahan Khalsa Mahan Khalsa is the founder of the Sales Performance Group of FranklinCovey , the creator of the Helping Clients Succeed sales improvement program taught in over 40 countries and 10 different languages.

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Hearpreneur

APRIL 16, 2016

When not in Italy leading and conducing culinary tours, I teach cooking locally in the Boston area to individuals who are new to cooking and not used to cooking at home. I had the idea to start Blue Compass in 2007 because I saw the need for a service. They face lights up when they see what they are able to do!

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thebarefootvc

JULY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. Just in the past year, a Babson study pointed out that funds with female partners were 3x + more likely to invest in female led companies.

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thebarefootvc

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

After spending time in Silicon Valley (from 1999-2003), Boston, London and Chicago, I moved back to NYC in 2004 and have been fortunate to witness the technology and startup growth for the past 10+ years. Just in the past year, a Babson study pointed out that funds with female partners were 3x + more likely to invest in female led companies.

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Altgate

JUNE 26, 2009

Last Chance To Take CompStudy Survey → Cracking the Code on Patient Medical Record Search Posted on June 26, 2009 by fnazeeri Informatics for Integrating Biology & the Bedside (otherwise known as i2b2) is an NIH-funded initiative managed by the Partners HealthCare System here in Boston.

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Duct Tape Marketing

MAY 20, 2011

Michael Port Called “an uncommonly honest author&# by the Boston Globe and a “marketing guru&# by The Wall Street Journal, Michael Port is a New York Times Bestselling author of four bestselling books including Book Yourself Solid, Beyond Booked Solid, The Contrarian Effect and The Think Big Manifesto.

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Altgate

MARCH 8, 2009

I say ecosystem as opposed to industry because it is not just the VC funds themselves that are imploding, instead the collapse includes entrepreneurs and startups that were funded by VCs, angel investors, service providers like lawyers, bankers and accountants as well as limited partner investors in VC funds. Bookmark the permalink.

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Altgate

JUNE 1, 2009

  I have a few hundred feeds that I follow in Google Reader and the way that I find new ones is a random process of discovery so Larry's post was great in that he not only provided a rank-ordered list but also a convenient way to mass subscribe. Bookmark the permalink.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

The venture capital industry is continuing its evolution from an upside-down pyramid (typically 3-10 Partners, plus some administrative support) to a traditional hierarchical pyramid. Summit Partners and TA Associates have leveraged their origination programs to move into later stage buyouts.

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Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

What they did was they partnered with Nike, they invented this sensor, which became part of the Nike plus system, and today Nike plus the website, 20 years later, has something like 135 million members on it. Rita McGrath: The opportunity for getting close to customers revived again after Apple introduced the first iPod.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, Google started and is still headquartered in Mountain View, but they opened an office in SF at the end of 2007. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010. Read More ».

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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. Launched in 2007 in Los Angeles by Adam Bernhard and Konstantin Glasmacher.

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David Cohen

JANUARY 28, 2015

Another moment was meeting Jason Mendelson , one of Brad’s partners at Foundry Group. These first moments in the Techstars story led to the launch of Techstars in 2007, an important moment to be sure. Molly was really the first person I ever considered a partner at Techstars, long before this was ever formalized.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JANUARY 21, 2020

I’ll tell you, I mean, he’s been my broadcast partner for better part of 10 years and I still haven’t had a bad day with him. Joel Goldberg: Yeah, better than his partner. The first time I ever met Dave Moore was 2007. John Jantsch: Nope. But to your point, he is a fine human being as well. I was in visiting.

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View from Seed

OCTOBER 9, 2019

He decided that moving fast was more his speed, so he joined Conduit Labs in Boston in 2007, who was purchased by Zynga 3 years later. I need to be paired with a strong design partner, but someone who will trust me on the other aspects. An ability to think holistically about how all the pieces fit together.

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thenextweb.com

AUGUST 6, 2012

After leaving Reddit in 2007, Swartz has been involved in a huge number of different ventures, from founding Watchdog.net to being an advisor for Avaaz.org and a consultant for Change.org. I flew out from Seattle, where I lived, to Boston to Paul’s lecture on the back of his essay,” Phil tells me. Obama May Go Alone On Cybersecurity.

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Transformify

MARCH 4, 2018

Not only one of the leading temporary staffing agencies but also among the women-owned businesses in Boston. Equality and supplier diversity are a priority and Aerotek partners with a number of vendors to provide CSR solutions to it's clients. Accrue Partners. The staffing agency specializes in temporary.

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Startup Lessons Learned

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Suffice to say that our partners, vendors, and most importantly regular mainstream customers all found the idea disturbing. 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. but she was never punished, and kept her mod status.

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