Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 23, 2012

They are also very active as an early-stage tech investor, partner and acquirer. 45 minutes in: Andrew’s process for investing in startups. 27:45 Thank you to Detroit Venture Partners for their support of the show! 45:15 What’s your process for investing in startups? That they own Reddit? Watch: [link].

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venturebeat.com

JULY 12, 2012

Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts. Recent Stories: Microsoft’s Bing Fund will give online startups cash, advice, and discounts. The startups will also have the option of using office space on Microsoft’s Bellevue, Wash. Cloud storage. Enterprise. Acquisition.

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Both Sides of the Table

NOVEMBER 4, 2012

I recently wrote about the 12 tips to building successful startup communities. I lived in London from 1997-2005 and for 6 of those years ran my startup based out of London. Everything I learned about startups I learned by making mistakes at my first one. I’m absolutely certain it is critical to any startup community.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 24, 2021

He was investing in Detroit and eager to write a book about the art and science of venture capital. I immediately introduced Mahendra to a bunch of Foundry Group LPs, partners, and entrepreneurs. Mahendra cornered me in a hallway and pitched the idea of doing a book together around how a board of directors works at a startup.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 16, 2015

However, for the past eight years, my partners and I at Foundry Group haven’t once scaled vertically (we haven’t added any partners since 2007 when we started) until we added Lindel Eakman as part of Foundry Group Next. Techstars Mobility (Detroit). My entire world functions as a large and wide distributed network.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2014

Events for enthusiasts, called Maker Faires, now stretch far outside California to places such as Detroit, New York and even Shenzhen, China. I believe the Maker Movement and startups are made for each other. They come at the early stage while a startup has no revenue or valuation, so professional investors are hard to find.

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This is going to be BIG.

MAY 14, 2012

There was a computer training lab run by a company called Prosoft, but that's like having an Apex Tech and expecting to be the next Detroit. Despite the attempts at seeding things way downtown, Flatiron and Soho is where tech startups grew, just like today. These are people whose business it is to support startups.

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View from Seed

JANUARY 5, 2021

And if we’re investing in the company, it then impacts how I might be most helpful as a thought partner to the entrepreneur depending on their archetype. The Mercenary. But arguably this is most true about the crusader founder type.

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The Next Web

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Mountain View says Google for Entrepreneurs is “the umbrella” for the company’s several dozen programs and partnerships around the world that support startups and entrepreneurs. Placing relevant Google tools in the hands of startups as they are getting off the ground and ready to scale. Image credit: stock.xchng.

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techcocktail.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Tech Cocktail Connecting, educating and amplifying the startup technology community and having fun doing it since 2006. So, today we’d like to highlight a few main points to consider when building your startup team. Startup’s can be stressful and there may be many times when people want to quit.

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Feld Thoughts

AUGUST 6, 2018

In it, he talked about his own experience expanding his investment horizons beyond the bay area, but also mentioned some other folks, including us and USV, where he did a quick analysis of the location of our partner funds. Hopefully, we will continue to help develop and expand existing and new startup communities.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 20, 2012

It’s been a refreshing resource for a bunch of startup communities, including Boston (where it started) and Seattle. We (my partners and I at Foundry Group and David Cohen at TechStars) are helping them get enough initial sponsors to bring on a full time writer in the Boulder / Denver area.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 11, 2012

After a week at home I hit the road again around the release of Startup Communities and spent almost all of October on the road, reaching Boise, Oklahoma City, Chicago, Des Moines, San Francisco, Seattle, Detroit, Boston, Montreal, Toronto, Lexington, and Louisville. I get to work with incredible companies and entrepreneurs every day.

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Feld Thoughts

NOVEMBER 3, 2013

I haven’t run a marathon since October 2012 when I ran the Detroit Marathon but after a year of struggling to get into a rhythm I’m once again motivated – and interested – in doing another marathon. Partners in a non-profit looking for support for a robot competition. New VC in town in the natural foods market.

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Brandanew

JULY 20, 2016

I have a great example to share from a local Detroit watch brand, called Shinola. They’ve created a great narrative around the city of Detroit and its working class roots. ”- ” Jonathan Dien, Partner, Gravity Tank, AdWeek, 2015. How will you win the market? What are you doing to win?

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Silicon Valley, Herzliya in Israel, Zhongguancun for software and Shenzen for hardware in China are examples of technology clusters, but so was Detroit for cars, Hollywood for movies, Milan for fashion.). Evangelos and I are in the process of developing a tool for diagnosing corporate disruption through innovations pursued by startups.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 6, 2017

I saw a tweet from Dan Primack saying the North Hall was basically indistinguishable from the Detroit Auto Show. He nailed it – it was basically a takeover by the worldwide auto industry with a few startups sprinkled here and there. There are zillions of CE startups in Sands. We started at the LVCC.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 21, 2012

Amy and I shipped the final draft of Startup Life: Surviving and Thriving in a Relationship with an Entrepreneur yesterday. The only thing in front of me for the next seven hours is the Detroit Marathon which I’m going to go suit up for after I finish writing this blog post.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 7, 2017

I spent the next seven years in the tech ecosystems of San Francisco, New York City, and even back in hometown Detroit, taking on various operating and investing roles. I’m excited to begin Part 2 in Austin with the amazing team at Silverton Partners. On the Austin market Austin has a very interesting startup ecosystem.

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Feld Thoughts

DECEMBER 3, 2012

It was entirely my fault and my partner Ryan McIntyre, who I crashed into, saved me from much more severe damage. I ended up running the Detroit Marathon on 10/21 and did fine, but I was completely wiped out physically by the end of October. This period started off on 9/5 in Kobarid, Solvenia with a bike accident.

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Growthink Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2011

Other times they talk about the startup industry in general. Josh is the CEO and Managing Partner of Detroit Venture Partners. Josh's post, entitled, "Five Disaster Moves to Botch Your Pitch" discusses 5 key blunders that he sees entrepreneurs making everyday, both when pitching him and pitching to partners and customers.

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Steve Blank

JANUARY 17, 2016

Yet this same network of connected people affects who gets funded, how startup teams form, and who gets hired. . The show follows the journeys of founders sharing their experiences of what it takes to build a startup – from restaurants to rocket scientists, to online gifts to online groceries and more.

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Up and Running

APRIL 18, 2014

I stole the ideas for my first startups from other people. What I’m saying is, I’m wholly unqualified to offer startup advice. He says they both realized the future of the voiceover industry was in digital, even while (ironically) penning the idea for their startup on a decidedly analog surface. We thought, “Hey, we can do that!”

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Haystack

JULY 20, 2018

Of course, that was not 100% true, with innovative startups and large outcomes occurring in Europe, in Asia, and other parts of the USA. Of the 23 funds listed here, 13 are in the Bay Area, 3 in NYC, 3 in Boston, 2 in LA, and one each in Detroit, Seattle, Toronto, Waterloo, Indianapolis, and Fargo, North Dakota.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 9, 2020

A complete collapse of revenue that simultaneously affects your employees and your customers, your partners, your investors, everyone all at once and all the news is bad. Your customers and your investors like partners? We're going to treat our hosts like partners. We'll treat our hosts like partners. 500,000 to Detroit.

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Feld Thoughts

OCTOBER 24, 2012

On Sunday, I finished the Detroit Marathon in 4:41:39. They ran with me in Detroit and it was super helpful to have them. The most exciting thing for me about the Detroit Marathon was that my partner Jason Mendelson completed his first marathon! I had a blast in Detroit from Friday until I left on Tuesday.

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www.xconomy.com

JUNE 9, 2012

View More in Detroit ›. Startups ›. View More in Startups ›. Managing Director, Enterprise Partners. Detroit Events ›. Subscribe for Free. Xconomy San Diego. Our Cities ▾ Boston ›. Ministry of Supply Puts MIT Engineering Cred Into Dress Shirts. View More in Boston ›. New York ›. View More in New York › ›.

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Startup Lessons Learned

JUNE 15, 2020

Ryan Sarver was a partner at venture capital firm Redpoint. Frontline Foods has now partnered with World Central Kitchen. I am one of the original organizers of Frontline Foods and prior to this had spent six years as a general partner at RedPoint Ventures. I love startups and starting things. Sydney Gressel : Yeah.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

has announced that it is partnering search giant Google to support the startup and entrepreneurship ecosystem in the United States and around the world. Both companies will jointly be investing in activities that foster innovation and supporting startups, beginning with Women 2.0 ‘s signature networking event Founder Friday.

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Up and Running

MAY 30, 2016

There may have been a time when opening a B&B in the greater Detroit area may have been successful; however, given the economic hardships that area has been facing in the last 10-15 years, it hardly seems like a solid business venture now. Step 2: Consider your startup financing. Estimating Realistic Startup Costs.

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BeyondVC

DECEMBER 8, 2004

For example, if you have a network security startup, the obvious players will be other security companies that sell similar products at similar price points with a similar distribution channel. Have they worked at other blue-chip startups or well known companies and been a top player? Do they have a history of demonstrated success?

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Feld Thoughts

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

My fourth book, Startup Communities: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Your City comes out at the end of the month. The Startup Revolution has begun. George), Vermont (Burlington), and Michigan (Detroit) in October. Launching Startup Revolution. , and MakerBot launches several magical things on Wednesday.

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techcrunch.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Problem was, I seemed to suck at the whole startup thing. Rather, I didn’t have anyone around me familiar enough with startups to tell me that I was doing it all wrong. One of the things I do as a founder of a later stage startup is to meet with early stage entrepreneurs to help them get their companies going. No phone system.

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Both Sides of the Table

AUGUST 9, 2011

Venture Capitalists typically have partners’ meetings on Mondays. So the industry formed around a day of the week when all partners could avoid having company board meetings or traveling. I introduced my partners, we spent weeks with the team and felt good rapport. This article was originally published on TechCrunch.

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Both Sides of the Table

OCTOBER 6, 2012

We met at a private party hosted by his venture partner Mike Yavonditte and I outlined my concerns for the lack of precision of the algorithm. Including ff Venture Capital’s unique approach to finding deals and the services they provide to their startups. So why not offer this service to startups at cost?

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