Both Sides of the Table

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

I am thrilled to announce that we have added Hamet Watt as a Partner at Upfront Ventures. But as sweet as that success has been (we invested pre-revenue in a small team) today my even more important news was the further expansion of our partner ranks. We have been on a drive to add more operational partners. What does that mean?

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 1, 2015

PSL, based in Seattle, is a not a VC firm, accelerator, or incubator, but instead is a startup studio, which is a company that creates companies. The co-founders are Greg Gottesman, Geoff Entress, Mike Galgon, and Ben Gilbert. Greg is a co-founder of Madrona and long-time VC. Ben was a co-founder of Madrona Labs with Greg.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 15, 2011

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I often recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. Even experienced entrepreneurs need a partner to strengthen their position. The question is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner.

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David Cohen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2020

The three founders (Isaac, Tim, and Jose) were based in the Los Angeles area when they moved the company to Boulder for the Techstars Boulder Accelerator in 2009. Techstars funded the company via our Techstars Seattle Accelerator in 2011. These are sorted by the year that we funded them. 1: SendGrid (2009). 2: Uber (2009).

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fi.co

DECEMBER 4, 2012

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition.

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www.geekwire.com

JULY 10, 2012

Share this: We’ve seen a flurry of activity in recent weeks among Seattle area venture capital firms, led by Madrona Venture Group which raised $300 million last month and Divergent Ventures which pulled in $6.9 million of what partners hope will be a much larger fund. Location: Seattle. Location: Seattle.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 25, 2010

I had lost a previous deal where the team said they liked me but didn’t know my partners well enough so I promised myself never to let that happen again. So I organized a team dinner with all four of my partners and all three of their founders. Next year I’m going to spend time in Seattle and Boulder in addition.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

We’ve also proven that giving new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a dedicated, hands-on chance leads to follow-on funding and additional accelerator success across the board. What happens when you give new, underrepresented, and geographically diverse founders a real chance during a time of economic uncertainty? .

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Version One Ventures

DECEMBER 17, 2015

We participated in these follow-on deals to further support our founders. While our highest concentration of companies is now in the SF/Bay Area (7), we remain geographically agnostic and are excited about the growing ecosystems outside the Valley, particularly Toronto/KW (6), Seattle (5), and NYC (2).

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 4, 2010

I met them through TechStars – they were founders of Orbotix , one of the 11 teams to go through this TechStars Boulder this summer. For example, the company in the TechStars Seattle program that I’m currently mentoring is absolutely killing it, but it’s far outside any of our themes.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. Even experienced entrepreneurs need a partner to back up each other and improve fundability. The question is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 28, 2010

This week’s guest was David Travers from Rustic Canyon Partners. What I found strange about this funded was the fact that it was led by Summit Partners. Investors: Summit Partners (lead), Jeff Clavier, Aydin Senkut, Gary Vaynerchuk. Seattle-based company specializing in mobile analytics. 4mm in Series A.

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techcrunch.com

APRIL 26, 2013

AngelList also partnered with SecondMarket to create an investment vehicle for these investments. Co-founder Naval Ravikant explains that 18 pilot companies in the program, including Transcriptic, Double Robotics and Tred, received $6.7 Investors included Founders Fund, 500 Startups and Marc Cuban. Seattle Meetup.

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Haystack

JANUARY 18, 2020

To be fair, not all of them held this view and many of them were investing nationally earlier, but as we flip over to 2020, there is a general acceptance among Bay Area VC partnerships that they need to be able to invest across the country, not just NYC and LA or Seattle. Acceptance that firms and partners need to actively market themselves.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 16, 2019

Today, Techstars announced a new initiative called Techstars Studio which will allow Techstars to source new company concepts from Techstars alumni founders, community leaders, venture capitalists, mentors, and corporate partners. We are investors in PSL (in Seattle) and High Alpha (in Indianapolis).

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 17, 2010

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I often recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. Even experienced entrepreneurs need a partner to strengthen their position. The question is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner.

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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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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

Sakti3 Founder Sastry to Step Down From U-M. View More in Seattle ›. Co-Founder and CEO, Wetpaint. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Founder, DEKA Research and Development Corporation. Seattle Events ›. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. View More in Boston ›.

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Both Sides of the Table

MAY 5, 2011

I’m in Seattle this week. Seattle should be the envy of any non Silicon Valley tech community in the country. As I gear up to give a keynote at the annual Seattle 2.0 awards dinner on Thursday night I started reflected on what it would take to “change the trajectory&# for Seattle or for any regional market, really.

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YoungUpstarts

OCTOBER 17, 2020

The founders of the companies all have stories to share. The company was founded by Jeff Bezos in 1994 and headquartered in Seattle, Washington. #4. The company has become a sub partner of many other companies since many use the service. #5. There are plenty of tech companies out there that have been around for some time.

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Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 13, 2011

If you are going to do the tour up and down Sandhill Road to try and raise your 1st round of financing you need a pitch deck because the vast majority of those meetings you are going to be sitting around a table and you will be presenting to one or more partners and that is going to be your first engagement.”. Is that when it became big?

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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 2, 2020

Celine Halioua , founder of a company called Celevity that is developing drugs to extend the lifespan of dogs, also played a key role. Fred Turner : I'm Fred Turner, CEO and co-founder of Curative. I'm the founder and CEO of Celevity. Celine Halioua : I guess to give a little bit of context, I raised my seed as a solo founder.

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 2, 2012

If you are a first-time entrepreneur, I recommend that you team with a co-founder with experiences, connections, and a skill set that complements, but doesn’t duplicate yours. Even experienced entrepreneurs need a partner to back up each other and improve fundability. The question is how to find that elusive perfect-fit partner.

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Version One Ventures

OCTOBER 17, 2018

With Angela’s promotion to General Partner , we now have investment partners located in both the U.S. Our particular focus is in San Francisco Bay Area, Toronto/Waterloo , Seattle, and NYC. It is a true honor to be a partner of yours! Acknowledgements and gratitude.

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Duct Tape Marketing

APRIL 14, 2022

Bob is the Founder and Chairman of the Board of Acceleration Partners, a global partner marketing agency. He is also the Co-founder and Chairman of BrandCycle. 9:14] How do I find partners? [12:58] 12:58] Is there an example case on finding partners that you’d like to go through with us? [15:43]

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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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Startup Lessons Learned

JULY 22, 2020

SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us. I have been the witness to it many times in my career because I work with startup founders. SF New Deal partners with local restaurants to provide meals on a weekly basis to those who are the neediest among us.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2015

Jerry Colonna, the co-founder of Reboot.io Jon Staenberg, a long-time friend from Seattle who did an interview with Harry on episode 034 , dropped me the following email at the end of April: He seems like a good guy, want to be part of his podcast? Ever in seattle? is a dear friend and his interviews are often magical.

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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. I regularly share this presentation with my partners at Foundry, especially the projects. How are people using it? And how can we make it better?

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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 try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. A Sense of Purpose. So he picked up Murray.

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www.scottporad.com

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

A friend of mine in Seattle just asked me the same question recently. For example, we have a mailing list in Seattle called “Seattle Tech Startups&# which is a great place to find a co-founder or developer-type. This is tough, and something I hear a lot.

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www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

When John Brockman ,founder of Edge , interviewed NathanMyhrvold his first question was “ What’s a CTO ”,to which Nathan replied: “Hell if I know. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires. Some time ago I did some digging into the history of the CTOroles and how to best classify them.

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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. But I’m not the only person who does this kind of work.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 12, 2014

As is our style, we participated, but we’re excited to have a new partner to join us, Madrona, and Petco in this fast growing adventure. We loved the two founders, Michael Beaudoin and Rodney Rice, but knew very little about marketplace businesses or the home improvement category. Some get it; many don’t.

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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. If you attend networking events, you’ve probably met a lot of entrepreneurs with an idea who need a partner to build it. The number one thing holding back new startups is funding.

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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

It seems like every day there is a new headline about an exceptional startup founder, investor, or corporate headquarters moving to Texas. These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. Startups and investors should treat Texas like one big city. Joe Lonsdale. Drew Houston. Jim Breyer. Charles Schwab.

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