Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

This quarter they interviewed me as part of it on Quarterly VC Update: Brad Feld on the State of Venture Capital Investing. I’ve already forgotten what the trendy things of 2015 were since AI, machine learning, bots, and autonomous cars are all the rage, although it’s almost 2017 so it’s time for something new.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 4, 2019

The Capital Factory Center for Defense Innovation is an unprecedented collaboration between the public and private sector that brings together entrepreneurs and government innovators shoulder-to-shoulder in a coworking environment where they can learn from each other. You can see a much larger list at the end. What gives?

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Editor’s note: This article was updated in November of 2017. A potential business opportunity for Sedibeng Breweries is a government-subsidized export operation, ideally to target markets in neighboring countries that are very similar to their target markets in Botswana so that Sedibeng’s strong marketing campaign can remain consistent.

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Reid Hoffman

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

How do we achieve cooperation amongst a diverse range of governments, industries, and communities, all of whom have different and often competing interests? To find the innovations that will truly make a difference, we need massive infusions of capital for research and development. Can we innovate fast enough to make a difference?

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David Teten

AUGUST 19, 2019

I’ve been a traditional equity VC for 8 years, and I’m now researching new business models in venture capital. RBI normally requires founders to pay back their investors with a fixed percentage of revenue until they have finished providing the investor with a fixed return on capital, which they agree upon in advance.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Enterprise tech in 2017: We are pumped about the NYC enterprise tech ecosystem! When you have local Fortune 1000 IT execs who are looking to buy innovative technology combined with NYC enterprise startups and west coast VCs and founders building a presence here, you get an amazing recipe for a killer 2017. SaaS 3.0 ?—?many

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The Startup Magazine

MAY 15, 2018

According to the 2018 Global Startup Ecosystem Report , in 2017, global venture capital investments reached the record of $140 billion, while the total value creation of the world’s startup economy hit astonishing $2.3 The study mentioned above shows that 35% of unicorns were from China in 2017, while the number of the U.S.

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 3, 2018

Friday, March 9 Attracting VC Funding Outside Silicon Valley Panel with HomeAway founder Brian Sharples & Capital Factory Director Gordon Daugherty We do a lot of things differently in Texas, including fundraising. Come share your journey capital and gain valuable insights at this meetup! March 10, 2018 5:00PM?—?6:00PM

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BeyondVC

JANUARY 3, 2019

Seed funds back to basics in 2019: We highlighted the barbelling of VC in the year-end 2017 update and see this continuing in 2019. That being said, blockchain will not solve all of the world’s problems but we believe use cases in supply chain and data governance will be two big areas in the future.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Are they running from high prices, high taxes, dysfunctional government, and wildfires? All of the investors, all of the big companies, all of the government groups?—?they In fact, the Houston city government ranks number onein the country in renewable energy use. What’s bringing them here? Count all of the people you know!

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Steve Blank

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

The results: 13 Universities will offer the course in the next year, government sponsors committed to keep sending hard problems to the course, the Department of Defense is expanding their use of H4D to include a classified version, and corporate partners are expanding their efforts to support the course and to create their own internal H4D courses.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 1, 2018

On the first official day of SXSW I’m going to be at the convention center all day until I head over to Capital Factory to kick off the SXSW Startup Crawl ! Join us and learn how to attract Venture Capital investment in your startup when you live somewhere other than Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, or Boston.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The Texas startup Manifesto was written in 2017; hasn’t a lot changed since then? Each city hosted break out sessions around topics that are especially relevant in that city. The week culminated with both a keynote from Mark Cuban and a competition awarding cash prizes to the best startups. In a word, YES!

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Up and Running

APRIL 24, 2018

billion in 2017 YTD (as of May 22, 2017). billion in funding by the end of 2017, a record-breaking 5-year high. Because of complex government regulations and a lengthy incubation period, funding a healthcare startup is more difficult compared to financing a tech startup. It was expected to reach over $9.4

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 6, 2017

Mayor Eric Garcetti at Upfront Summit, February 2017 I first sat down with then councilman Eric Garcetti on the Ides of March 2012 — almost 5 years ago exactly. He was running to be the 42nd mayor of Los Angeles and he outlined his vision to “open up the city government to technology and innovation” if he were elected.

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Ben's Blog

APRIL 7, 2021

Economic inequality and opportunities for job growth are directly correlated with overall spending levels on R&D and with the geographic concentration (or distribution) or those dollars — both public funding (government) and private (as with VC). As noted above, government spending on R&D has fallen and at the same time U.S.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. For entrepreneurs seeking assistance in R&D, Toronto is a great bet.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 28, 2020

In 2017, we released the Texas Startup Manifesto , outlining a vision of a united Texas startup ecosytsem where startup entrepreneurs treat the four major metropolitan areas as one big city when they are recruiting talent, fundraising, and acquiring customers. The Network Effect?—?applies applies to our startup portfolio.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

While we believe the FBI’s intentions are good, it would be wrong for the government to force us to build a backdoor into our products. And ultimately, we fear that this demand would undermine the very freedoms and liberty our government is meant to protect.”

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

cities, but the Canadian government remains at the ready to attract and assist new startups. There is an ample selection of government aid that small businesses are encouraged to take advantage of – some of which include grants that require no repayment. For entrepreneurs seeking assistance in R&D, Toronto is a great bet.

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thebarefootvc

AUGUST 31, 2018

Filecoin, which had one of the largest ICOs of 2017, published its quarterly update with its first demos. Huobi’s venture capital arm also recently funded Terra, a Singapore-based company that is developing stablecoin technology to better allow cryptocurrencies to be used in ecommerce, targeting Asian economies first.

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Version One Ventures

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

It has 10 times the market cap of SNAP, the most prominent IPO of 2017. And so, we keep hearing how venture capital is about to be disrupted. But you also have almost no influence on the project in terms of governance. The post Why the Blockchain is so disruptive for venture capital appeared first on Version One.

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Reid Hoffman

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

I’m the founder of LinkedIn and a partner at the venture capital firm, Greylock Partners. To achieve that vision, we need new technologies; new collaborative strategies between governments, NGOs, and the private sector; new methods of sharing and scaling what works. It’s a great privilege to be here with you today.

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Cracking the Code

OCTOBER 9, 2015

Emmanuel Macron during the workshop in Versailles In this context I was invited, together with a large dozen of foreign investors, to participate in a workshop to discuss what France could to do to attract more venture capital from global firms.

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Scalable Startup

FEBRUARY 1, 2013

The Future of Startups 2013-2017, beginning of a series. And then medium-size businesses start to use it, and then large businesses start to use it, and then eventually the government starts to use it. The big advantage that we have as a venture capital firm over a hedge fund or a mutual fund is we have a 13-year lockup on our money.

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Reid Hoffman

MARCH 19, 2019

He also had backing from well-known venture capital investors like Union Square Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Google Ventures, and even Richard Branson. In New York City, ride-hailing went from being negligible in 2014 to over 15 million rides per month by the end of 2017.

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Steve Blank

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

These instruments of national power employed in a “whole of government approach” to advance a state’s interests are known by the acronym DIME -FIL. VIDEO “ Slaughterbots ” Stop Autonomous Weapons – YouTube , 2017. It is the “venture capital” of the Navy and Marine Corps. Class 2 focused on China, the U.S.’s

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VC Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Pitchbook Data released a new report on the state of Private Capital in Israel 2020 , covering private equity and venture capital. In 2010, VC funds in Israel had over $10 billion of assets under management, by 2017, that number had grown to over $36 billion. Israel based startups raised $4.1

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

In 2017, the company reported sales of over $500 million. Benchmark is an investor in Rover through a merger with DogVacay in 2017). According to the company, GMV for 2017 was an impressive $150 million, followed by an astounding $600 million in 2018. Over 4 million sellers have earned over $1 billion transacting on the site.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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David Teten

APRIL 30, 2018

According to the NVCA 2017 Yearbook , in 2004, 77% of global VC fundraising went to US VCs, and 85% of global VC dollars went to US startups. As a result, the Canadian government created the Canadian Technology Accelerator Initiative. As of 2017, 421 companies have passed through the program in 6 U.S. Source: NVCA, Pitchbook.

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Both Sides of the Table

MARCH 12, 2017

Recently Upfront Ventures published its outlook for the technology startup world and venture capital overall titled it “ WTF Happened to Winter ?” We are now publishing some of the VC survey data the report used and the results are clear — it’s a great time to be a startup raising venture capital.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

T Ramaswami, Secretary to the Government of India’s Department of Science and Technology, said “The R&D fund is being created with a view to commercialize technologies and to leverage innovation for economic collaboration.” Experts estimate that the global cyber market will reach $93 billion in 2017.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2018

Huston-Tillotson (@HustonTillotson) | Twitter Eugene Sepulveda CEO, Entrepreneurs Foundation Director, Capital Factory Sr. Advisor, Austin Mayor Steve Adler Eugene has long operated at the intersection of business, government & nonprofits, locally and nationally. Carolyn was recognized by Inc.

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Hunter Walker

JULY 29, 2017

So I switched careers into venture capital because I wanted to learn the ways of valuing private companies. How did that come about and did being “on the ground” make you more or less encouraged with regards to the way Democrats/Progressives will use tech in 2017, 2018? This was before the Facebook IPO.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020

In February of 2017, Susan Fowler’s description of the pervasive cultural issues at Uber, after the company’s abject failure to address her sexual harassment complaints properly, finally broke through in a way that garnered the tech community’s appropriate attention. It makes me want to quit venture capital entirely.

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