Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 8, 2014

billion 2013 figure) have been massive financings at Honest Company ($70mm), JustFab ($85mm), ZipRecruiter ($63mm) and lord only knows how much SnapChat has actually accumulated. Is it any surprise to see Zulily in Seattle, Wayfair in Boston, ExactTarget in Indianapolis, TrueCar in Los Angeles, GroupOn in Chicago or BuzzFeed in NYC?

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2018

The list would include Howard Schultz, a marketer working for a Seattle coffee bean roaster when a trip to Milan convinced him to jump ship to create upscale espresso cafes that he found all over Italy; and maybe Steve Jobs, who started on the night shift at Atari. Focus on customer value in every job.

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View from Seed

AUGUST 10, 2021

We first invested in co-founders Ben Forgan & Pat Wilbur in early 2015, when NextView led a $1.3M And early-stage VC investors have increasingly ventured beyond their backyards of SF, NYC, and Boston to more actively invest in (and in some cases relocate to) places like Miami, Austin, Chicago, Seattle, and other cities.

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Hearpreneur

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

On Wednesdays, I cut my call calendar short so I can pick up my daughter after school and dodge through Seattle traffic to get her to her riding lesson. I’m not saying it’s easy to balance leading a growth-stage company and being there for my kids, but it has some distinct advantages. Thanks to Lucia Zelesco, Zelesco Consulting ! #20-

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A Crowded Space

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

Good founders are really good at building buzz and hype. Great founders sometimes avoid it - more on that later) They’re good enough to build some buzz, get some angel investors to publicly invest in and endorse their company, introduce them to more angels, get solid press coverage, and write guest posts about the future of the xyz economy.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2013

They often ask whether they have to move to SF, NY or LA to get financed. ” I’m trying to get a feel for their commitment to local community versus being in a place where financing is easiest. This afternoon (Saturday) I have a coffee meeting with a portfolio company founder. Ask SuperCell. Or UrbanAirship.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 5, 2011

I’ve decided to take all of my private conversations and subjective points-of-view on the topic and make them public in a keynote speech at the Founder Showcase in San Francisco on June 15th. That’s the deal you get when you’re raising in a good market for startup financing. That’s fine.

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YoungUpstarts

JANUARY 29, 2020

Taylor was recognized by the Commercial Spaceflight Federation (CSF) in its Commercial Space Leadership Awards in January 2020, receiving the Commercial Space Business & Finance Award for his business and financial leadership in commercial space activities that have benefited the industry as a whole. Niche recycling.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. View More in Seattle ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Seattle Events ›. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. New York ›.

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The Startup Lawyer

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Blake is the founder of CoHabitat, a startup community and hacker co-working space that’s become a hub for startup entrepreneurs, developers, and creatives. Dynamo Labs was the first recipient of fbFund, a grant fund operated by the Founders Fund, Accel Partners, and Facebook. Gabriella Draney, Tech Wildcatters.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

There was a lot of consumer internet activity again…resurgence of things, but it was still mysterious, venture capital was still kind of closed, 1st time entrepreneurs had a lot of questions that were unanswered, and there was still some sort of hand waiving around all the financing stuff and so we took it on….”. It has worked out great.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Jason is the Founder of 37 Signals, makers of Basecamp, with over 3 million users and 2.8 Just take any week of venture financings these last few years and you will find that almost all of the companies funded to be cloud-delivered software businesses. DocuSign (Seattle, WA), Provider of electronic signature technology - $27 million.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Investors are looking for companies whose ideas, infrastructures and strategies indicate potential for a bigger payoff, which may include removing the “founder” as the primary decision-maker at some point in the growth cycle, a longer term strategy for going public or shorter term plans to grow in order to sell the business to a larger company.

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Feld Thoughts

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

We led a $7m financing in the leader in digital dog boarding that connects dog owners with approved, reviewed, and insured sitters. I’m psyched to be joining the board, working with my good friend Greg Gottesman at Madrona on another Seattle-based company. I’m psyched to be an investor.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 13, 2014

Wonderful human being who is civically engaged, mother of 3, mentorer of younger founders, hard worker and arguer extraordinaire (so says her current Twitter bio). Kara has worked in finance in Boston, NYC and Silicon Valley. She has been in operations in Seattle and Los Angeles.

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This is going to be BIG.

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

In 2010, Antonio Garcia Martinez, the founder of AdGrok, wrote, “New York will always be a tech backwater, I don’t care what Chris Dixon or Ron Conway or Paul Graham say.” Top founders want to live in a place where employees are serious about working hard. Startup founders always need help. You need both.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

Some friends in the impact investing world have recently started talking about generating giant returns by investing in Zebras (such as a nonprofit building in rural Colorado) and Ponies (an immigrant restaurant in Seattle currently using payday lending at 35% for their working capital). To Get involved in CO Impact Days 2017.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

VC Financings: 1. ShoeDazzle has Kim Kardashian as a co-founder / company as a spokesperson as well as Brian Lee who was a co-founder at Legal Zoom. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. I keep meaning to get him drunk to spill the stories. Add this new model to the mix. 13mm in Series B. GroundTruth.

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keen.io

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The founders had been dropping hints that they wanted me to join them. To begin answering this question, I started on a quest to understand startup financing. I knew this meant that the founders had come to some conclusion about what to offer, and now I was going to find out what it was. I hoped an offer letter was coming soon.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

Today, Rover announced that Menlo Ventures has led a new $12m round of financing. We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. My Investments dogs Financing madrona menlo ventures rover' Some get it; many don’t.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 25, 2018

While I was in Seattle last week, I had a chance to stop by the Glowforge office and talk to the team during one of their biggest weeks since their historic 30-day crowdfunding campaign. An electric energy buzzed in the air along with the familiar low hum of anticipation in advance of a big product launch.

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Hearpreneur

JUNE 26, 2016

I am the founder and Program Director of a very unique and dynamic community-based outpatient behavioral health treatment facility based in Brooklyn, New York called One World Counseling. We are ready to go national with expansion deals already in place in Seattle and San Francisco. Thanks to Linda Passante, The Halo Group. #3

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Haystack

MAY 4, 2019

And then, after a few years, I started to wonder — with all these new startups forming while all these huge growth rounds were happening, how would a founder even be able to recruit after raising a couple of million bucks? The big question still remains to be seen – will this investment activity pay off in terms of returns.

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www.huffingtonpost.com

MAY 10, 2011

I was lucky to sign on as advisor and investor the founder of a very high-profile consumer Internet site who happens to also be a former engineer, who I will call Richard. The first thing I did was to find an advisor who I could trust.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

Most founders have a strong sense of what they’re trying to achieve. They hire their initial co-founders and early employees and everybody has a sense of “mission.” We tend to stick by founders in tough times and often roll up our sleeves in the darkest hours. A Sense of Purpose. So he picked up Murray.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. My boss, Jen Grant , was an incredible manager, and Aaron Levie, the co-founder and CEO, was a fantastic partner on all things communications. I tried to get hired at Better Place and failed. Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 20, 2010

I also saw the first episode of the TechStars video series “The Founders – Season 2”. "Brad Feld" The Founders | TechStars Boulder | Teaser 01 from TechStars on Vimeo. And – if that wasn’t enough, Localytics , a TechStars Boston 2009 company, closed a $700k round of financing led by Launchpad Venture Group and New York Angels.

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www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

He has been actively involved in merger, acquisition and disposition transactions with a combined value of over $1 billion, and financing/investment transactions and securities offerings worth over $600 million. Single trigger vesting , which allows founders to vest all of their equity and make money in an exit. Interested?

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2011

An Inside Look at BigDoor’s Venture Funding is going to be me, Keith Smith ( BigDoor CEO), and Andy Sack ( Lighter Capital , Founder’s Co-op , and the TechStars Seattle Managing Director). Both are good friends of mine and have really interesting philosophies about startup funding.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Seattle-based sales tech company Outreach was named one of Forbes Cloud 100 Rising Stars. Personal finance bot Trim announced the close of a $2.2 We still love network effects , and are always looking for awesome founders working on cool ideas that leverage network effects… whether that’s in marketplaces, social platforms, or AI/ML.

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Version One Ventures

MAY 24, 2016

billion in financing in 2015 (with 395 deals). Over the past month, I’ve spent a lot of time in NYC, Toronto, and Ottawa for board meetings, conferences, meetings with our founders, re-connecting with co-investors, and meeting new entrepreneurs. And VC money is rolling into NYC: NYC companies received 5.95

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clicksend.wordpress.com

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Home About Contact Make It Happen: How to find a Programmer My weekly post on Seattle 2.0. The number two thing is lack of a technical co-founder. Partner with a Programmer After they have their big idea, most non-technical founders set forth to find an engineer to form a partnership. Be confident with the skills you do have.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 1, 2014

” For Lindsay Nelson, CEO and co-founder of Theme Dragon, Inc that opportunity was founding a tech company. Five years, several iterations and a stint at a Seattle business accelerator later, things are going smoothly and successfully. Inspiration Managing a Business Self-Financing Strategy Success Stories'

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Who Uses a Consulting CTO I’m going to focus on the needs of the founders of startup companies: Founders of startups use a consulting CTO when they have business vision but limited knowledge of the technology needed to launch their company. Increasingly, people who were only available as full-time, equity-position founders or [.]

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Single Founder Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded byjust one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder,like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. Whats wrong with having one founder? It probably means the founder couldnt talk anyof his friends into starting the company with him.

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