Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 8, 2010

Over the past few months I’ve had a number of people ask me if I know of any TechStars like accelerator programs for people creating non-software / Internet products and services. If you fit in this mix or know someone or an organization that does, can you leave a comment on this post?

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Internet Software Seattle Vertical 119

The Startup Magazine

MARCH 26, 2023

Reaction to AI in Schools Across the World After powerful AI tools took the Internet by storm, students quickly picked up this trend. In response to the growing issue, a number of public schools in Seattle and New York have already banned ChatGPT and other AI tools from their WiFi networks and devices.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 10, 2022

Allay Health: Seattle, Washington. ShelfLife: New York, New York. New & improved: more money, le$$ problem$. Everyone in the NextView partnership has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g. Jambb: Boston, Massachusetts . Who we are.

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San Diego San Francisco Alabama Valuation 156

OnlyOnce

DECEMBER 21, 2009

Innovating in New York City Last week I wrote about speaking at the NYC Lean Startup Meetup. One of my other key takeaways from this, which I've known for a while and have been meaning to blog about, is just how vibrant the tech startup community is here in New York. There are many more per square mile in New York.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 20, 2010

Jason is also the author of Rework, a New York Times bestseller on entrepreneurship, technology, and design. DocuSign (Seattle, WA), Provider of electronic signature technology - $27 million. Echo360 (Dulles, VA), Provider of Internet audio and video technologies - $1 million. 10 million.

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Version One Ventures

JUNE 3, 2013

Ideally, prior design or programming experience or work in an investment or internet-related position. Strong interpersonal skills – you’ll often be talking to entrepreneurs and other investors. Good Excel modeling skills.

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Gust

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Pre-revenue software, internet, mobile and telecom deals. Alliance of Angels (Seattle). New York Angels. In 2011, we noted that the pre-money valuation of pre-revenue deals funded by angel groups in Silicon Valley, Boston and New York was higher than most other regions of the country. 2012 Valuation Survey.

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Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation North Dakota 169

ReadWriteStart

JULY 14, 2011

Across all Internet companies tracked in the CB Insights' database, deals were up 28% year-over-year and funding grew 69% as compared to the second quarter of 2010. Regionally, California continued its dominance, representing almost half of the Internet deals, with New York remaining in the number 2 spot, followed by Massachusetts.

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Adam Benzion is the founder of Entirely —a Seattle startup focused on social innovation, keen on connecting more people in more places to create special things together. . And you are hell bent on making your new venture a success, as you should be. WeWork, Seattle’s South Lake Union Neighborhood. Your day is finally here.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 20, 2016

This is a city-based horizontal accelerator similar to the ones we have in Boulder, Boston, Seattle, Austin, New York City, London and Berlin. Yesterday Techstars announced the launch of Techstars Kansas City. Applications open in January 2017 and the program will run in July 2017. I have a long history with Kansas City.

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

This creates new use cases versus a historical model. When I used to travel to Los Angeles and Seattle on business I would use a rental car. An article in the New York Times titled “ Mom’s Van Is Called Uber ” suggests that parents are using Uber to send their kids to different events. Today I only Uber.

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San Francisco San Jose Marketing Technical Review 111

abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Fortunately, the rise of the Internet, and specifically Internet marketplace models, act as accelerants to the productivity benefits of the division of labour AND comparative advantage by reducing information asymmetry and increasing the likelihood of a perfect match with regard to the exchange of goods or services.

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Internet Matching Vertical Hosting 88

Gust

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Biotech, life science and medical devices are usually funded at higher pre-money valuations than, say, software and Internet companies. 2) Competition for deals in regions, such as Silicon Valley, New York City and Boston, has resulted in higher and, in many cases, rising valuation. b) New York (2 groups) – $2.9

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Angel Groups Valuation Pre-Money Valuation St. Louis 125

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. ­om migrated off Drupal.

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This is going to be BIG.

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Quinn once again brings out the city government's party line on startups: "Unfortunately, when it comes to new technology startups, New York City lags behind other parts of the country.". The new proposal of the week: "In San Diego they have a great organization to do that -- it's called CONNECT. internet technology.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Ive been helping create software and Internet companies for over 25 years, starting with my first company, Feld Technologies, in 1985 when I was in college. Over the past four years, my partners at Foundry Group and I have spent a lot of time talking about, thinking about, and studying how software and Internet companies get started.

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Austin Startup

JANUARY 27, 2017

Hence, we know have a robust entry point and new platform to leverage the diversity of perspectives, knowledge, and needs of the disability community — a billion people worldwide — that will provide benefits for everyone. A number of Smart Cities are stepping up and making accessibility an inclusion a priority.

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Design Seattle Chicago Australia 78

Duct Tape Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

On a visit to Seattle, I stayed in a boutique hotel for a couple of nights. A bricks and mortar business is often reviewed and rated online, while an internet business is still discussed in coffee shops and at water coolers. Take away – be congruent in the branding experience you provide your customers.

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Reputation Marketing Seattle Social Media 73

ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 6, 2011

John has rightly observed that many small companies, as well as foreign companies trying to get into the United States, have limited budget, and could use 25% of the time of a sales rep in each geography, say, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Seattle. I like the idea, and recognize the problem.

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Both Sides of the Table

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The Bridge Between Online Services & The Internet: AOL. It was an online community like CompuServe and eventually started offering people dial-up access to the Internet for a monthly fee. AOL was controlled by one company and the Internet was distributed. AOL was closed, the Internet was open. And then came AOL.

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Social Network Networking Internet Technical Review 318

Austin Startup

OCTOBER 27, 2010

These early adopters have access to high-end handsets, access to the Internet, the Web and applications, music on their handsets, personal information and access to friends. A: There are a number of top cities when it comes to mobile sofware and applications: Silicon Valley, New York, Seattle and Austin to name a few.

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Programming Founder Silicon Valley Mobile 59

Campus Entrepreneurship

OCTOBER 18, 2011

From Brandt in the WSJ : In the summer of 1994, Mr. Bezos quit his job in New York as a vice president at the financial-services firm D.E. He and his wife, MacKenzie, moved to Seattle to take advantage of the explosive growth of the Internet and to start Amazon.

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Silicon Valley Seattle New York Internet 40

Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

Texas exported more than California and New York combined in 2019. Only California and New York have a few more, and maybe not for long. In short, the first wave of internet companies were widely distributed and brought people online (AOL in Virginia, Microsoft in Albuquerque and Seattle, Dell in Austin, etc.)

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Texas San Antonio Houston Dallas 90

Hearpreneur

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

At 24 I was putting myself through college and running the creative services department at an energy systems engineering firm in Seattle when the company was purchased by a French firm. I despised every minute of it, which is why I decided to establish an internet business. I started my career working at a large law firm in New York.

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Entrepreneur Software Review LLC Web Development 145

Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 8, 2014

The “Infrastructure Phase” of the Internet … Before we had an Internet startup explosion we needed infrastructure which spawned the original tech startup community in Silicon Valley. The “Three C’s” of the Internet … The infrastructure and web services phases of the Internet are built.

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Silicon Valley Kansas City Startup Venture Capital 390

View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

Our kickoff day will be hosted in New York and will focus on establishing inter-cohort relationships while commencing our pre-seed tailored programming. Everyone in the NextView partnership has deep operating experience as founders and operators scaling high-growth internet companies (e.g. Who We Are.

Programming 156

Programming Sacramento San Francisco Founder 156

Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

We were talking about a company, Factual (disclosure my firm is an investor), which was founded by one of LA’s most talented Internet entrepreneurs, Gil Elbaz , who as co-founder of Applied Semantics (purchased by pre-IPO Google for $102 million and now Google AdSense) is responsible for a large portion of the Internet’s monetization.

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Silicon Valley Southern California Los Angeles Semantic 313

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

Here in Boston the same dynamic as Silicon Valley has been afoot… at least in the software/internet sphere, the majority of startups have migrated from the suburban loop of Rt 128 back into the urban core of Boston & Cambridge. So why are software & internet startups more urban today than 5-10 years ago?

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Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Feld Thoughts

APRIL 19, 2011

If it’s New York, there’s an easy United flight that gets you there in under four hours – take it the day after you graduate. Oh, and Boise is a pretty cool place, as is Austin, Seattle, Miami, DC, and at least 95 other cities in the United States. Don’t be that guy or gal. San Francisco?

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San Francisco Investment Bankers Miami United States 195

abovethecrowd.com

DECEMBER 26, 2012

For those of you that don’t know, Longreads is a Twitter handle ( @longreads ), and a web service ( www.longreads.com ) that points to the best long form content on the Internet. A Basketball Fairy Tale in Middle America, by Sam Anderson (New York Times Magazine). Is Sugar Toxic, by Gary Taubes (New York Times Magazine).

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New York Silicon Valley Internet Video 68

www.founderinstitute.com

MARCH 2, 2010

Fred Wilson, Chris Dixon, and others in the debate agree to a dramatically simplified term sheet with some significant changes against the norm : - The elimination of participation , which has become a common request since the Internet bubble burst.

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Term Sheet Liquidation Preference Vesting San Diego 40

Hunter Walker

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Barnes & Noble Sets Itself Free [Maureen O’Connor/New York Times] – If you’re of a certain age [I am] and certain disposition [I am] the 90s evolution of B&N into welcoming, browsable, hangout Third Places looms large in your nostalgia. Then of course [waves hands] ‘the Internet.’

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ChatGPT Software Review Technical Review Developer 77

techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

In consumer internet, that usually means one front-end user-facing developer, one back-end server-side developer, and ultimately a business person (details will come in a later post). SVASE or Founder Dating in Silicon Valley, First Tuesday in London and Hackers and Founders in New York all come to mind. Short and sweet.

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Cofounder Founder Silicon Valley Technical Cofounder 66

Both Sides of the Table

MAY 7, 2011

Joel moved to Seattle, and worked at Microsoft for three years as a program manager on Excel 4.0 Free email providers (like gmail or hotmail) didn’t exist, and you had to pay a separate fee to dial up companies like AOL to access the internet. The experience was paid for by placing ads at the bottom of your internet browser.

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Software Review Software St. Louis API 285

ReadWriteStart

OCTOBER 22, 2019

But if your company is located someplace like Silicon Valley, Seattle, Boston, or New York, you’re entering the race with a handicap. It’s hard to recruit against a profitable enterprise with a “wow” campus, unmatched employee benefits, and a reputation that’s leagues beyond your tiny new company.

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Distribution San Francisco Silicon Valley El Salvador 117

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. My name is Dmitri Oster.

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