View from Seed
APRIL 14, 2020
This led to a number of repercussions that most VC’s have lamented during this time, including higher prices, larger rounds, shoddy due diligence, and many companies raising large sums of venture capital that probably aren’t suited to VC funding. VCs are always founder focused no matter the market environment.
Genuine VC
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
When Chad Pytel introduced me to Bryan Helmkamp , CEO/Co-founder of Code Climate , I knew that I had to pay attention. So I chatted with Bryan about Code Climate’s service, which provides automated code review (originally Ruby, but also JavaScript and now PHP). It’s indispensable.”
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David Teten
MARCH 14, 2018
Managers of VC funds typically want to grow their business aggressively, just like the founders we back. – Templatize the entrepreneurial process , by providing checklists, standardized agreements and other reusable code. – Syndicate Special Purpose Vehicles (“SPVs”) for specific opportunities.
View from Seed
SEPTEMBER 4, 2018
Most of these rhyme with what we’ve said in the past, but some have also evolved to fit the changing landscape and our own convictions about what really matters for founders and their investors at the seed stage. Of the last 15 investments we’ve made, we’ve been the lead or co-lead investor over 80% of the time. .
Feld Thoughts
AUGUST 25, 2015
Jack Tankersley, a long time mentor of mine, co-founder of Centennial Funds, and co-founder of Meritage Funds, wrote me a very long response. Take a look at the founding syndicates of each: Masstor Sytems (5/1979). Quantum Corporation (6/1980). CIVC. $ 250,000. CIVC. $ 200,000. This isn’t true.
Agile VC
DECEMBER 13, 2011
I looked at this founder’s prior startup, which ultimately had a successful exit, and then was happy to connect with him again as he launches a new project. In NextView’s case that’s seed stage internet and software companies. I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.
Startup Lessons Learned
OCTOBER 20, 2008
If engineers want more time to spend making their old code more pretty, they are invited to do so on the weekends. The idea is that once we move to the new system (or coding standard, or API, or.) The current code is spaghetti, but the new code will be elegant. Its become "legacy code" and part of the problem.
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