Both Sides of the Table

APRIL 27, 2014

I started in 2007 with a thesis that my primary investment decision would be about the team (70%) and only afterward about the market opportunity (30%). Co-founder discontent. Reference checking is to confirm or disprove a strong, positive intuition you already have about founders that could lead to an investment or a pass.

Cofounder 374

Cofounder Syndication Syndicate Early Stage 374

www.allthingsdistributed.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Main July 11, 2007 The Different CTO Roles I was putting together a short panel presentation on the roleof a Chief Technology Officer in corporate innovation and I once again realized that there is quite a bit of confusion around the role of the CTO. In this pattern the CTO is often a co-founder ofthe business, or one of the first hires.

CTO 40

CTO CTO Hire Syndication Syndicate 40

Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 2, 2010

In addition, I’ve made many seed investments as an angel investor in two time periods,1994-1996 and 2006-2007, and seen many more through my involvement as a co-founder of TechStars. ?Our At Foundry Group, we describe ourselves as being “syndication agnostic&#. each are equally happy situations.)

Angel Investor 152

Angel Investor Cofounder Syndication Syndicate 152

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

I describe this in part as the “Social Network” effect… not just the movie itself but the example of Mark Zuckerberg and many other high profile young founders as role models ( who can forget this image? ) Google started and is still headquartered in Mountain View, but they opened an office in SF at the end of 2007.

Silicon Valley 185

Silicon Valley San Francisco San Jose Startup 185

Agile VC

APRIL 27, 2012

This is true not just for entirely new product categories like tablets, but even existing ones… smartphones had been around for 5+ years before the first gen iPhone launched in 2007 (remember Palm Treos and the original Blackberry phones?). I co-founded NextView Ventures , a seed-stage VC firm based in Boston, in 2010.

Silicon Valley 124

Silicon Valley Seed Stage Syndication Syndicate 124

View from Seed

JANUARY 26, 2016

In the years immediately prior to the popularity of institutional seed investing (I’m using a time frame of 2002 – 2007), the early-stage financing landscape looked similar to the first segment of the chart. I used 2007 as the marker to delineate this, but the trend probably started a bit sooner.). technical co-founder).

Seed Stage 120

Seed Stage Early Stage Cofounder Finance 120

mashable.com

JULY 18, 2012

Originally founded by PayPal co-founder Max Levchin Slide.com was known as the largest third-party developer of Facebook applications until Google purchased it to “make Google services socially aware.”. In July 2007 Google acquired web security and archiving company Postini for $625 million. billion in April 2007.

San Francisco 104

San Francisco Acquisition Social Media Mobile 104