Feld Thoughts

MARCH 2, 2016

My friends at Oblong have been involved in some very cool new installations of their Mezzanine product in different vertical markets. They are suddenly seeing a lot of interest from hospitals and health care systems. A recent new installation is the Mercy Virtual Care Center , which is the world’s first virtual care center.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 22, 2014

In addition to an amazing demo and good food, Christopher Walsh (Director of Product Effectiveness for McGraw Hill Financial S&P Capital IQ) is going to be talking about how his organization uses Oblong’s Mezzanine to change the way they work. It’s Thursday, July 24th from 5:30-8:30pm EST. Register here.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

APRIL 7, 2022

If you’re in the business of shipping and distributing products, you’ll need to set up a warehouse. If you’re looking for ideas on how to set up your warehouse, here are a few tips: Product: If you’re producing small items like electronics or jewelry , you’ll need a space to store parts and components.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

We have chosen to define “growth rounds” as rounds of $100 million or more but if you include deals of $50 million or more (traditional growth or mezzanine rounds) this accounts for 62% of the entire startup funding market. Taken together these “mega rounds” represent nearly half of the funding in 2018. And this is about to grow even faster.”

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 29, 2012

A year ago the present caught up with the future and their first product, Mezzanine , came to life. Oblong, which is one of the most amazing and unique companies I’ve ever been involved in, is constantly dealing with the constraints of today while working a decade into the future.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 15, 2014

. (~$500K used for building team and initial product/prototype). Seed is the new Series A. (~$2M used get for building product, establishing product-market fit and early revenue). Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Series A is the new Series B. (~6M-$15M 6M-$15M used to scale customer acquisition and revenue).

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David Teten

JANUARY 19, 2021

Early-stage: Cofounder with engineering/ product background from top-tier university or major technology company. Mezzanine lending (a rough comparable) has a 18-23% required rate of return. Hard covenants with potentially strict penalties. . Cash collateral. Soft power (Material Adverse Conditions and investor confidence clauses).

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 9, 2014

Sometimes the seed-extension round can be done to just provide more cushion for hitting the Series A traction mark, in other cases it is because the company mis-executed, or didn’t achieve product-market fit and wants to get another shot at the Series A goal. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Welcome to the new venture landscape!

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 21, 2017

Our first 3D-related investment was Oblong , which has reinvented the way we engage with computers (which we call infopresence ) through the use of their 3D spatial operating system called g-speak and their collaboration product Mezzanine. We are now enjoying market leadership during the plateau of productivity.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 10, 2012

Mezzanine Financing Most companies that raise equity capital and are eventually acquired or go public receive multiple rounds of financing first. That is, you'll use the funding to build a product or service and prove that customers want to buy it. The five main stages include the following: 1. Pre-Seed Funding 2. Seed Funding 3.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Early-stage entrepreneurs rightly keep their focus on creating an innovative product or service. They need a large infusion from venture capitalists, private equity, bank loans, or mezzanine financing. Growth is more than simply repackaging existing products, and adding bells and whistles or slick incentives.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015

One of the most enjoyable things I get to do in my job is to be involved in creating amazingly fun products. If you hang around in our office at Foundry Group you see plenty of Makerbots, Fitbits, an Oblong Mezzanine, an Occipital Structure Sensor, ModRobotics Cubelets, littleBits, 3D Robotics drones, and Spheros.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 14, 2018

Marks, founder and managing partner of High Rock Partners and author of “ Middle Market M & A: Handbook for Investment Banking and Business Consulting “ Conventional wisdom says that a company grows by reaching new customers, increasing its workforce, expanding marketing or launching new products or services.

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David Teten

JANUARY 21, 2021

Jonathan sometimes refers to their investments as “micro-mezzanine” because “mezz is typically structured as a contractual periodic payment, with some equity-like upside, but subordinate to other debt… so most lenders look at it like equity. The INTRO tool is available to non-portfolio companies as well. .

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K9 Ventures

OCTOBER 10, 2017

If it doesn’t have the product fully baked yet? A Seed round today — like the Series A round of yesteryear — requires some kind of traction or product. They shouldn’t even be looking for a fully built product. Series C/D is the new Mezzanine. Pre-Seed investors should *not* be looking for any kind of traction.

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Up and Running

JUNE 16, 2011

Cons of seeking investors: Investors tend to be focused on product-oriented businesses, so if you have a service-based company you may not be able to get investment. Traditional banks, government programs, credit unions, micro-lenders, and mezzanine funds all have initiatives to help businesses at all stages of development.

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Feld Thoughts

APRIL 30, 2019

They invented the idea of multi-stream collaboration and have been implementing a high-end multi-stream sharing environment in high-end video conferencing rooms with their Mezzanine product. But to do this, you needed a Mezzanine room system. Until recently. Let’s use Zoom and launch things using a Zoom conference ID.

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Scalable Startup

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Does their product line hit the mark? What are the follow on products? The second round can also be a mezzanine, or pre-IPO round, or even the IPO itself. The second round, however, is based more on cold hard facts. Is this company catching on? Have they built the foundation for the next 3-5 years? Is it positioned correctly?

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crowdSPRING Blog

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Usable yet Useless: Why Every Business Needs Product Discovery – [link]. Surprising Insights From HubSpot’s $35M Mezzanine Round | ON Startups – [link]. The Network Effect Isn’t Good Enough | TechCrunch – [link]. Einstein’s Secret to Amazing Problem Solving (and 10 Specific Ways You Can Use It) – [link].

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2011

As some of the last generation of startups have gotten bigger many VCs have also chased later-stage investments that were traditionally dominated by growth equity or mezzanine funds. If they hit a product / market fit (meaning you suddenly see a massive uptick in usage and/or revenue) then these companies need to go “fat.&#

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Eco-Products is the nation’s leading brand of single use food service products made from renewable and recycled resources. · Green Garage aggregates proven, sustainable, energy saving automotive maintenance/repair related products and delivers them through convenient consumer valet and corporate mobile on-site services.

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VC Adventure

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Twenty Companies Ranging From Seed Stage to Mezzanine Will Showcase Next Generation Technologies from Various Industries at the 27 th Annual VCIR Winter 2010 Conference. Eco-Products is the nation’s leading brand of single use food service products made from renewable and recycled resources. · TopSchool, Inc. TopSchool, Inc.

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techcrunch.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2010

Researchers polled experts in lending, mezzanine capital, private equity, venture capital and private businesses themselves. Maybe, America has lot of unemployed engineers or bozos with no desire of doing some more productive for this country. Not a big shock, but things don’t look pretty, especially in the venture capital world.

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Seeing Both Sides

JANUARY 13, 2015

I have been thinking about the challenges of crossing the chasm - that is, taking a cutting-edge product and selling it successfully to the mainstream, not just early adopters who are more tolerant of less complete solutions - and the challenges of scaling in general as many of my portfolio companies are dealing with these issues.

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