Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 2, 2014

I often get asked how I ended up becoming a venture capitalist. When people ask me how they can become a VC, I point them to my partner Seth Levine’s excellent blog posts How to become a venture capitalist and How to get a job in venture capital (revisited). An accidental one.

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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.

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David Teten

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

… “ Group Health Cooperative , a nonprofit health care system in Seattle with 10,000 employees, has also thrown out its budgeting process. Disclosure: Graphite Financial is a spinoff of ff Venture Capital , where I was formerly a Partner. Guest contributed to Techcrunch.

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Gust

DECEMBER 21, 2011

Boston, New York City, Seattle and Southern California spawn many exciting startups…but do not exceed the Valley in any measure of entrepreneurial achievement. You are much more flexible than VCs or strategic partners – they prefer not to travel, a they have lots of local opportunities to invest their money.

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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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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!

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Also, working with a consulting CTO will prepare you for finding and selecting a permanent technology partner. Avoid delay by using a consulting CTO on a short-term basis while you are searching for a permanent technology partner. Referrals from your investors (or potential investment partners) are ideal.

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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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Austin Startup

MARCH 7, 2021

These are all potential customers and strategic partners for startups. 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.) More than 50 Fortune 500 companies are headquartered in Texas and six of the Fortune 50.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 1, 2016

We’re a national venture capital investment firm but with our roots firmly in Los Angeles. We try to recruit investment partners who bring startup operating experience. I may choose different words from time-to-time to describe Upfront Ventures. We can be blunt but we believe that builds healthier relationships.

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

George, Chicago, Des Moines, Burlington, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington (KY), and Palm Desert. I’m spending all of my extra time with my three partners at Foundry Group , who I love working with, including a top secret two day retreat, time together at Defrag and Blur , and a few magic meals along the way.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 30, 2015

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? Last week Harry releases two episodes 065 with me and 066 with my partner Seth Levine.

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Hunter Walker

AUGUST 26, 2022

From Box to Glossier, and Comms to Venture Capital, Ashley Mayer Is Carving a Pretty Unique Path. I had gone to high school with the founders in the Seattle area, and we had recently reconnected. What convinced you — and your other partners — that this was the next phase of your career? Enter Box. They gave me a shot.

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Fred and his partners Albert, John, Andy, before Brad, now Rebecca have operated headquartered out of New York City, and have invested successfully near home (Esty, MongoDB, Kickstarter), in the Bay Area (Twitter, Coinbase) and in Europe (SoundCloud).

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abovethecrowd.com

JULY 10, 2014

When I used to travel to Los Angeles and Seattle on business I would use a rental car. When you consider that Uber is partnering with smartphone vendors, credit card companies, car manufacturing companies, leasing companies, and insurance companies, you can imagine that being larger is a distinct advantage. Rental car alternative.

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Duct Tape Marketing

JULY 26, 2018

Rand Fishkin: I think one of the challenges is that Silicon Valley startups are built for a very specific asset class, venture capital, which is an asset class that’s designed to invest in 100 companies and three or four of them will return the entire fund and another 10 will be doing okay. Rand Fishkin: Well, thank you, John.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%.

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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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Cracking the Code

APRIL 27, 2018

DocuSign’s second office, the ‘Garage’ From printer & fax to computer When Tom Gonser, Court Lorenzini and Eric Ranft started the company in 2003 out of Seattle in the overhang of the dot.com explosion, the business world was used to the print-sign-fax routine. And this is just the beginning!

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crowdSPRING Blog

JUNE 20, 2018

The city’s close proximity to major business centers like Seattle and Silicon Valley is another notable benefit, enabling a vibrant flow of talent between cities up and down the west coast. of partners at venture capital firms in Canada are women , which more than double the US rate of 6%.

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Both Sides of the Table

JUNE 29, 2017

I am so proud and humbled to be able to formally announce that Upfront Ventures has raised its 6th venture capital fund in the past 21 years. A huge thank you to all of the Limited Partners who have entrusted us with your capital, time and reputations. So what does one actually do with $400,000,000?

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View from Seed

JANUARY 11, 2023

We wholeheartedly believe in the potential of each company we select; the smaller batch size allows the NextView partners, who possess deep operating and founding experiences at companies like LinkedIn, PayPal, eBay, and Blue Apron, the space to spend meaningful one-on-one time with each founder every single week.

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www.usatoday.com

JULY 16, 2012

Veteran investor Timothy Draper says venture-capital firms are taking notice of Silicon Beach. Visit our Partners: USA WEEKEND. There arent any Silicon Beach start-ups that have hit the really big time yet, such as San Francisco-based Instagram, where staffers became instant millionaires. But there will be," Citron says.

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Both Sides of the Table

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Last year I was on Sand Hill Road in Silicon Valley meeting with one of the most prominent venture capital firms in the country. The VC partner, somebody I greatly respect said, “Yeah, we like Gil and what they’re doing. Scott Painter , founder of CarsDirect has created TrueCar (backed by GRP Partners).

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abovethecrowd.com

FEBRUARY 27, 2019

Rover.com (*) in Seattle, which was founded by Greg Gottesman and Aaron Easterly in 2011, is the leading player in this market. Swing is now at over 1,200 school partners and has filled over 115,000 teacher absence days. Instawork (*) is an on-demand staffing app for gig workers (professionals) and hospitality businesses (partners).

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Haystack

JUNE 13, 2019

With Tableau, Salesforce gobbles a bunch of strategic goodies — a new regional HQ in Seattle; over 75K customers; a growing product line that will go into data management and more intelligent services; and possibly signaling an interest to go deeper into data business lines. 4/ Pivot North, Indeed.

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Version One Ventures

AUGUST 31, 2015

The traditional career path in venture capital has been around for decades. You start working at a firm as an associate, with the assumption that your hard work will pay off and you’ll become a principal, and then make partner. The rise of the bootstrapping VC is made possible by micro-funds.

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www.paulgraham.com

APRIL 28, 2010

Venture Capital Funds VC firms are like seed firms in that theyre actual companies, butthey invest other peoples money, and much larger amounts of it.VC The fund managers, who are called"general partners," get about 2% of the fund annually as a managementfee, plus about 20% of the funds gains. Dont be misled by thisoptimism.

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www.currentlyobsessed.com

MAY 28, 2010

Snapvine was my first experience being in the driver’s seat of the fund-raising process, and in the 3 years prior to our acquisition we raised over $10mm in venture capital. their requested capital and a further 1.8 He tries to write things that havent already been written 9000 times. Or is it? cthomaschase great post.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 24, 2014

Dino Vendetti a VC at Bay Partners, moved up to Bend, Oregon on a mission to engineer Bend into a regional technology cluster. Bend’s economic development agency ( EDCO ) has worked very hard to establish direct flights to major West Coast cities including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Portland, and Denver.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 19, 2021

Evocalize is backed by Seattle-based Madrona Venture Group and Second Century Ventures , the venture capital arm of the National Association of Realtors. Evocalize clients have used the CMP to activate over 750,000 digital marketing programs with partners.

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